Work Quotes
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Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one.
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I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?
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The job is not the work.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff.
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Go to bed when you’ve finished work, not earlier.
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I feel that luck is a product of hard work.
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A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.
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While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work.
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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.
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Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
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I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.
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You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
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They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.
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I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.
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Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.
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If we're afraid to stand in our own skin with those we work with, then how do we lead those who have no voice at all?
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Words should be employed as the means, not as the end: language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
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The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.
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Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work
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There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but...the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work with, be a hard worker and help people get the job done. And do it with as much passion and quality as you can.
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I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
