Work Quotes
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I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.
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Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
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A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.
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The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.
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I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm.
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Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?"
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If I'm not in work, I don't wear any make-up.
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There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.
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How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?
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I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity, it’s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it’s getting worse. I can’t tell whether my work is good or not.
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We're not really in the business to sell ourselves. We want to sell what we work on.
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Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
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If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.
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God respects you when you work, but He loves you when you sing.
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Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in one's work.
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Don't expect others to do your work for you.
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It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
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I think one thing we went through was common to a lot of people: You work your whole life to achieve something, then you achieve it and find out that you still have good days and bad days. So you start thinking, 'Is that all there is?' After a while you calm down and get back to work.
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I've always had visions of being a starting quarterback. That's why I come to work every day.
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In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
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My body back at the Playboy mansion was the most important thing in life back then because we were in the spotlight every minute. We had to look good. The girls who gained the weight, those were the girls who didn't get the work.
