work

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘work’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.” -Jeff Bridges

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  • “The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.” -Brian Eno

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  • “Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.” -Caspar David Friedrich

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  • “The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.” -Novalis

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  • “I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure…

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  • “Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I’m visiting.” -Harry Connick, Jr.

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  • “We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.” -Bo Bennett

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  • “What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.” -Rick Perry

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  • “I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That’s never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad’s 8-millimeter movie camera.” -Steven Spielberg

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  • “I’m actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.” -Ang Lee

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  • “Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  • “Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.” -Patricia Velasquez

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  • “People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.” -Henry Louis Gates

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  • “There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.” -William Hague

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  • “Work is the price which is paid for reputation.” -Baltasar Gracian

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  • “Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.” -Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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  • “You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.” -Julie Benz

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  • “This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.” -Neil Gaiman

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  • “Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that – we probably had the word ‘cappuccino’ about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.” -Hugh Jackman

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  • “You’re basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won’t work. That’s why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They’re all religious problems.” -Jack Kevorkian

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  • “I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I’ve ever done. It’s a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.” -Galen Rowell

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  • “Avon is a unique place to work we’ve got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company 46 percent of our officers are women.” -Andrea Jung

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  • “So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.” -Sheryl Sandberg

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  • “And, you know, you try and preach to them there’s more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There’s some dedication in it, some love you’ve got to put into this work.” -Eddie Murray

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  • “I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.” -Bette Davis

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  • “We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.” -Tennessee Williams

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  • “My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.” -Paul Cezanne

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  • “Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.” -Theodor Adorno

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  • “In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.” -Donald Rumsfeld

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  • “There’s an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?” -Simon Mainwaring

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  • “I don’t think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there’s some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.” -Emma Thompson

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  • “I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work.” -William Shatner

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  • “The whole essence of good drawing – and of good thinking, perhaps – is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.” -Chuck Jones

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  • “I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.” -Nick Cave

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  • “It’s continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you’ve got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don’t think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.” -Rachael Ray

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  • “Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.” -Giorgio Vasari

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  • “Create your own method. Don’t depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.” -Constantin Stanislavski

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  • “The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.” -Kamisese Mara

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  • “Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.” -Steve Wozniak

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  • “The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there’s some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there’s a lot of work that’s gone into it, so it can’t all be just a lie.” -Damon Albarn

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  • “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” -Robert Orben

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  • “I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be…

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  • “You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.” -Paul McCartney

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  • “Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.” -Thomas S. Monson

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  • “Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.” -Mel Brooks

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  • “I don’t think about my previous success. I’m happy that the work I’ve done has been very successful.” -Aaliyah

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  • “Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top – I think that’s the main thing for me to work on.” -Charlotte Gainsbourg

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  • “To me, as long as we’ve known each other, I’ve always thought Mick’s most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.” -Keith Richards

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  • “Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work – or worry.” -Gilbert Parker

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  • “Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.” -Edward Gibbon

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  • “The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you’re not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you’ll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn’t work like that. So much is luck. It’s much better to let yourself off, to think, ‘There’s nothing I can do.’” -Matthew Macfadyen

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  • “An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.” -Donald Cram

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  • “I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.” -Edward Hopper

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  • “What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don’t sell anything.” -Kim Weston

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  • “Another Black Label motto. That’s what I think life is. It’s just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.” -Zakk Wylde

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  • “A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.” -Pearl S. Buck

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  • “An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.” -William Feather

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  • “If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.” -J. K. Rowling

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  • “When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on…

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  • “The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.” -Rush Limbaugh

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  • “I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything…

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  • “It will work. I am a marketing genius.” -Paris Hilton

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  • “Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.” -Peter Marshall

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  • “My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it’s like therapy.” -Pamela Anderson

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  • “To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” -Herman Melville

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  • “I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.” -John Grisham

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  • “Writing is hard work and bad for the health.” -E. B. White

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  • “I don’t pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.” -Ted Nugent

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  • “Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That’s not what life’s about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you’re overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye…

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  • “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.” -Isak Dinesen

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  • “You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!” -Marie Corelli

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  • “Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.” -Craig Bruce

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  • “I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.” -Dick Wolf

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  • “When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that…

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  • “I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.” -Vidal Sassoon

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  • “Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.” -Roger Staubach

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  • “Fear God and work hard.” -David Livingstone

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  • “A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” -Vladimir Nabokov

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  • “I don’t like to work with assistants. I’m already one too many the camera alone would be enough.” -Alfred Eisenstaedt

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  • “A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.” -Oliver Stone

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  • “My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.” -Mark Warner

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  • “I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.” -Tony Shalhoub

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  • “Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.” -Meryl Streep

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  • “Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” -Charles Baudelaire

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  • “Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It’s been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I’m talking about. But I’m still trying to work out…

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  • “We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.” -Alvar Aalto

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  • “If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.” -William Safire

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  • “A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.” -Norman Douglas

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  • “Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.” -Janet Jackson

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  • “I wasn’t born a fool. It took work to get this way.” -Danny Kaye

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  • “Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.” -Ralph Marston

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  • “It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.” -Lady Gaga

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  • “When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.” -Lou Holtz

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  • “When I was younger I probably didn’t understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm’s distance and that’s not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.” -Debra Winger

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  • “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.” -Brigham Young

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  • “Generally a chef’s book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.” -Sally Schneider

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  • “I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.” -Maria Callas

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  • “America is at that awkward stage it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” -Claire Wolfe

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  • “The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.” -Havelock Ellis

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  • “For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  • “The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.” -Meister Eckhart

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  • “I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck’s a little bit bent and it’s a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.” -Jack White

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  • “I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.” -George W. Bush

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  • “Government’s role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.” -Jesse Ventura

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  • “In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.” -Wendell Willkie

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  • “I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win – if you don’t, you won’t.” -Bruce Jenner

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  • “I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.” -Gustave Flaubert

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  • “The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.” -Simone Weil

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  • “People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.”…

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  • “He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.” -Dylan Thomas

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  • “There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” -Woodrow Wilson

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  • “I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.” -Hank Aaron

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  • “My work is a game, a very serious game.” -M. C. Escher

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  • “The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.” -Stephen Covey

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  • “You musn’t force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.” -Mary McCarthy

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  • “You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” -Jerry West

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  • “Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.” -Soichiro Honda

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  • “If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.” -Magic Johnson

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  • “So this is the space during tutoring hours. It’s very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students’ work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.” -Dave Eggers

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  • “The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take…

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  • “If you start to disrespect the character you’re playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it’s all technique. It’s like watching a juggler – you can be impressed by it, but it’s not going to touch you in any way.” -Steve Coogan

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  • “Will it, and set to work briskly.” -Friedrich Schiller

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  • “Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.” -Thomas Aquinas

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  • “I don’t try to focus on anything that doesn’t affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I’m just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.” -Tim Tebow

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  • “The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn’t like you or wants to get rid of you, you’re in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses,…

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  • “I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know?” -Jenny McCarthy

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  • “I’ve always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.” -Quentin Tarantino

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  • “I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.” -Rand Paul

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  • “Artists don’t talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it’s stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.” -Paddy Chayefsky

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  • “Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.” -Charles de Gaulle

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  • “The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.” -Gabriel Heatter

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  • “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” -Stephen Leacock

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  • “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” -Thornton Wilder

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  • “We’ve got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.” -Pete Coors

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  • “Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.” -Constantin Brancusi

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  • “I know some people say it’s not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it’s always worked so well for me.” -Kim Kardashian

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  • “Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.” -Charles Kingsley

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  • “To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.” -Ramakrishna

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  • “And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.” -Beatrice Wood

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  • “We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.” -Mary Kay Ash

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  • “The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.” -Mia Love

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  • “Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.” -James Allen

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  • “After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.” -Joseph Brodsky

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  • “Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.” -Cindy Sherman

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  • “I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.” -L’Wren Scott

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  • “There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.” -Lyndon B. Johnson

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  • “Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.” -Paul Coffey

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  • “What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.” -Julia Cameron

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  • “It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.” -James M. Barrie

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  • “Evil gains work their punishment.” -Sophocles

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  • “I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.” -Helen Reddy

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  • “A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt ‘Don’t bother me – I’ve got important work to do.’” -Daniel Goleman

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  • “It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.” -Mark Harmon

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  • “And I’m going to work as hard as I can… for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we’ll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I’d like to think I’m going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!” -Jim Valvano

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  • “I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.” -Ellen…

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  • “What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I’m a good person to society. That’s hard. The talent, that’s a gift. I just came here like that.” -Erykah Badu

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  • “That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.” -Lukas Foss

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  • “I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.” -Paula Deen

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  • “Hard work – I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn’t fly. It’s all in the practice. It does take work and it ain’t easy – but man, the rewards!” -Susan Powter

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  • “The greatest weariness comes from work not done.” -Eric Hoffer

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  • “Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.” -Moliere

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  • “Being a mother is quite tiring. There’s not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it’s hard work.” -Kirsty Gallacher

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  • “You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.” -Alan Alda

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  • “What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” -Eugene Delacroix

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  • “In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.” -Peter McWilliams

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  • “If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.” -Ben Stein

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  • “A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.” -Imelda Staunton

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  • “You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I’m going to work every single day, I don’t think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!” -Mindy Kaling

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  • “The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.” -David Herbert Lawrence

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  • “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” -Marc Anthony

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  • “Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.” -Alex Rodriguez

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  • “All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.” -Ben Affleck

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  • “Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” -Earl Nightingale

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  • “People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.” -William Hazlitt

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  • “What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?” -Jackie Kennedy

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  • “I don’t think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.” -Aung San Suu Kyi

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  • “Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.” -Stendhal

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  • “No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.” -Andre Gide

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  • “Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.” -Gillian Anderson

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  • “There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: – Shine!” -Jimmy Smits

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