Work Quotes
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
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Work is an almost pure expression of the self.
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A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
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See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success...
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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I won't work with Terry Richardson again.
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Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
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Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
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But in art class, all you had to do was try. I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.
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Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.
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Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
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I feel that luck is a product of hard work.
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All good work requires self-revelation.
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I know he's quite keen to play, so that's what they'll have to work out.
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Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.
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I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
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Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if he found something work taking. I said that what was Mozart had not been stolen from Galuppi, or from anyone else for that matter.
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Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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How will we know it won't work if they won't do the study?
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All scientific work is incomplete – whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time.
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To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
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Work is therapy for the soul.
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The friendships with women—the women I write about in the book and others—included work. I wanted to show how shared work—parallel or in collaboration—makes for a different kind of affection and intensity.
