Work Quotes
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On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.
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“Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.”
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It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.
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Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
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Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.
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Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.
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I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
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You couldn't breathe. The lights didn't work and the radio transmitters would emit this incredibly high-pitched white noise.
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I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.
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The life I live is my art work.
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Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.
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I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.
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If you want something bad enough and you work hard enough, anything's possible.
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I'm not the best person to analyze any kind of evolution in my work, but I do feel like it's been an ongoing struggle to basically teach myself how to tell the kinds of stories that interest me in comics form.
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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Just because somebody says you are not trustworthy, that doesn't mean it is so... CNN's brand equity is built over 37 years doing hard work in very dangerous places... those who rely on CNN trust CNN more than ever.
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When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.
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'Time' was a glorious place to work in the years that I was there, from 1959 to 1964.
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And then they would have the shoe removers on one side, and the non-shoe removers on the other side until they could work through coming to understand why we might both be trying to worship authentically, and because of our cultural background we have these different ideas. But it took a while.
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If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!
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Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.
