Work Quotes
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The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
Thomas A. Edison
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie
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The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership...
Heber J. Grant
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I was used to having stones in my hands, but I realized now I needed both hands free to get to work… On me.
Benjamin L. Corey
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I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.
Tomas Transtromer
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I've been learning French a bit through my work with Longchamp, and I've been in France quite a lot. And I really love how they express themselves. I especially love when something is untranslatable.
Alexa Chung
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A true picture has the power to set the imagination to work.
Wifredo Lam
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As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
Stan Wawrinka
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I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.
Dolly Parton
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There is an intellectual guardianship over the world, it is man.. .This is the last judgement, before them you stand.. .They help you when you work. You can thank them only through work. When you want to die, they sometimes appear to you. When you are completely empty and completely open, you belong to them. After his mental recovery.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.
Claire Messud
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In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
E. M. Forster
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I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.
Mehmet Oz
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I'm very open about my referencing; I'm very open about who I work with.
Jonathan Anderson
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It's hard after a long day at work to still get your butt up and go to the gym, so classes are the best motivators for me, or if I have a trainer. I had a trainer for a while, and that was cool because you just show up, and they tell you what to do.
Miranda Rae Mayo
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
John Berger
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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.
Johnny Depp
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It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.
Steve Jobs
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
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How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?
Nicholas Lore
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Grace Slick was a total trip to work with. Lots of jokes and opinions. A strident individual and super talented!
Nancy Wilson Heart
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Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
Marilyn Monroe
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
Robert Frost