Working Quotes
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And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
Hart Crane -
Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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I will say this: the first film that I was on was 'In the Heat of the Night', that Norman Jewison directed with Sidney Poitier. I'm on the set, and I'm totally taking it for granted. Everyone is working for everyone else and pulling for the very best, and it makes everyone better because you feel that effort and concern and appreciation.
Scott Wilson -
A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.
Kazuaki Tanahashi -
You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.
Emmet Gowin -
John McCain and I, and our camps, are working together to get John McCain elected.
Sarah Palin -
Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.
Bill Buxton -
A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.
Josh McDermitt
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My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research
Carl Nielsen -
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
Steve Buscemi -
We are also urgently working with industry to identify how key routes can be re-established by other airlines as soon as possible.
Grant Shapps -
In the last few years we have been working to ensure a move like this does not have such a big impact, before I would have been worried nine out of 10, now I'm worried four out of 10. It's not the same and we've done a lot of work to ensure we do not depend on the transfer market. At The Premier League we are above the name of the players, just like Real Madrid is bigger than the brand of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Javier Tebas -
I actually came out of drama school and went into two years of working in film and television, which was a happy accident.
Morfydd Clark -
I have been working out every day to prepare for the competition
Hafthor Bjornsson
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I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.
Muhammad Ali -
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen -
What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
Francis Bacon -
It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.
Morgan Freeman -
I just used a lot of my junk and it was all working today. I just try to keep the ball down. I'm not a strikeout pitcher. When we got the lead and added to it that helped to take the pressure off me.
Amanda Smith
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Working people are bearing the brunt of the EPA's inaction.
Dennis Hastert -
Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.
Robert Falcon Scott -
By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.
Tim Ferriss -
I actually feel good at the plate. I'm working on things.
Aaron John Boone