Work Quotes
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It can hardly be said that Greenaway is unaware of his demoniac cleverness, but he unearths the nuggets buried in his work in a spirit of generosity. They are not so much possessions to be admired as gifts to be shared.
Peter Greenaway
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My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
Helen Keller
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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art even cartoon art is never really finished; it is abandoned.
Brooke McEldowney
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People don't work in a dotcom because they have to. There are many professions that don't require that sort of time. But people sign up because they want to make world-changing differences, to build something that affects millions of people.
Kevin Systrom
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I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.
Jon Favreau
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I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
Steve Southerland
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I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game.
Eric Thomas
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I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.
Kevin Costner
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It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.
Steve Wozniak
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We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.
Baltasar Gracian
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The fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.
Elana Dykewomon
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Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
Christopher Darden
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The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.
Evan Esar
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I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.
Chris Pine
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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
Ben Affleck
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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
Seth Godin
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These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.
Susan Olsen
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I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.
Abi Morgan
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I would never want to take away the option of sex work from someone, but I would want to create more options so that everyone can make the decision whether they want to do sex work or they don't want to do sex work, and that people who do sex work can do it safely.
Emily Symons
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It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, "I have to work with whites.
Michael Emerson
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The most successful people are those who are wildly enthusiastic about their work.
Nick Corcodilos
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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
Studs Terkel
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Whenever anybody asked me, 'Who is your number one director to work with?' I would always say Tim Burton.
Ella Purnell
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Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton