Work Quotes
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Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
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To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.
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We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
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The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.
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If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important.
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I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.
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I'd like to work on having every fourth year become a year in which no laws are made, but the old laws are reviewed, updated, or deleted as needed. That way we won't get endless, obsolete laws piling up on the books.
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At the end of the day, I write down an 'L' or a 'W,' whether or not the day was a 'Loss' or if it was a 'Win.' It really bothers you to have to write down an 'L.' An 'L' looks like a day I ate a lot of junk food, or I didn't work out when I was supposed to or train when I was supposed to train, or if I felt that I had a bad performance in the ring.
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To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.
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It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.
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I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least from my experience, I have a dozen or so British friends who are actors, and if you look at their body of work, and they'll go do theatre, and they'll go do this and this. They work, and they're always honing and trying to be better.
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For me, to take a movie and travel the world and go and work with these cultures and an international cast and have this spy thriller that's not just about character but also action and suspense, they're very challenging films as a producer to make, creating stories, creating set pieces that serve this character Ethan Hunt.
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I have to meet everybody I work with before I work with them. Before I say yes, I have to meet them, and then I take it from there. I don't care if you've had the best record or the worst. That doesn't matter to me. I don't care about that stuff.
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I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.
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I want to work and be happy.
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The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.
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Things work very differently in Bollywood. There is a lot of camping there.
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I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
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Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
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I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.
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I think that my humble beginnings were very deliberate, and I'm grateful for them because I'm not sure I would see my achievements the same way if they were handed to me. I'm not sure my work ethic would be the same.
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Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day.
