Work Quotes
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. If you want your child, spouse, client, or boss to shape up, stay connected while changing yourself rather than trying to fix them.
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The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
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I did some different things mechanically that took me a while to get out of. I'm looking forward to getting back and getting 100 percent for next year. I'm going to look at this season as, hopefully, a learning experience and go home and work as hard as I have been in the offseason and get ready for next year.
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You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.
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There will be people who don't like you or aren't convinced. I'd rather let my work talk than justify in words.
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There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!
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How will we know it won't work if they won't do the study?
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When a proto-type—a new initiative—doesn't work, we face two alternatives: one is to bitch about reality and the other is to harvest the gift it just gave us, the knowledge of what has to be corrected.
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We must continue to ensure that the legacy of the Greatest Generation is preserved and protected so that all Americans can work to embody the ideals and values of those that came before them.
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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
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It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
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Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.
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My body is for my tennis - it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.
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I am tremendously inspired by many women around the world who work under dire circumstances to make a difference for their families.
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
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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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I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.
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Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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.
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Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we would have won the freedom to marry 40 years ago. We must put the legal work next to the public education work next to the legislative work next to the organizing work, and that's what's brought us so far.
