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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).
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“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” -Henry James
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“The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.” -Jon Meacham
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“Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I’ll develop my radio personality.” -Gracie Allen
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“But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it’s not how our similarities work together it’s how our differences work together.” -Michael J. Fox
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“Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.” -Lascelles Abercrombie
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“All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.” -W. Edwards Deming
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“There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.” -Emmanuelle Beart
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“At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you’re not in the right place where you need to be, then you’re going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.” -Mehmet Oz
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“Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.” -Oscar Hammerstein II
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“Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.” -Ann Coulter
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“For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product…
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“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” -Gloria Steinem
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“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” -John D. Rockefeller
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“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.” -Andre Maurois
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“God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.” -Charles Stanley
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“I have three daughters, so I can’t be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids – especially daughters – they know how to work you. They’re a lot smarter than we are, that’s for sure. But I’ll be more tough on their boyfriends.” -Tim McGraw
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“The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.” -Charles Handy
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“I never work just to work. It’s some combination of laziness and self-respect.” -Harold Ramis
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“I think the best place to work in football is England.” -Jose Mourinho
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“I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.” -Mandy Patinkin
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“It’s a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.” -Rick Derringer
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“A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.” -Martin H. Fischer
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“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” -Carlos Castaneda
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“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.” -Audre Lorde
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“Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.” -Richard Simmons
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“The biggest risk I’ve ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.” -Adam Lambert
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“My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.” -Ronnie James Dio
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“I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people’s faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.” -Drew Brees
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“I’m very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it – going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.” -Albert Ellis
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“The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence – the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day – the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you’ve got something worth saying.” -Jennifer Weiner
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“I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work.” -Princess Diana
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“Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!” -David O. McKay
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“If I go on a diet and work out, I’m always in a bad mood. I’d rather be a little heavier but nice.” -Salma Hayek
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“When your hobbies get in the way of your work – that’s OK but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves… well.” -Steve Martin
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“If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.” -Bob Hope
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“I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.” -Neil Armstrong
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“You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.” -Joe E. Lewis
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“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.” -Charles de Lint
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“My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.” -Ludacris
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“In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.” -Alice Walker
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“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.” -David Seabury
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“I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don’t believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It’s not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.” -Nigel Mansell
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“The days you work are the best days.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
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“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature’s part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.” -Susan B. Anthony
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“A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.” -Sholom Aleichem
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“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“You can work really hard, but if you’re not training in the right way you’re not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.” -Michael Chang
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“The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.” -E. O. Wilson
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“It’s not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it’s real. If it’s contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can’t filter out the real and unreal.” -Fred Durst
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“When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.” -Tom Cruise
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“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.” -Jean Cocteau
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“Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that’s a bonus, and if you don’t, you still won’t hate going to work.” -Jeff Foxworthy
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“The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.” -Blaine Lee
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“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it’s vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it’s security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.” -John Burroughs
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“I’m Jewish. I don’t work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.” -Joan Rivers
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“A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.” -Jose Marti
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“But marriage goes in waves. You’ve got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don’t put the work and the effort into it. You’ve got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.” -Anna Benson
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“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.” -Edward Kennedy
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“I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.” -Alexander Woollcott
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“Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work.” -Chief Joseph
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“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.” -Andrew Carnegie
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“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.” -Edwin Land
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“Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.” -Eddie Van Halen
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“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.” -Lewis Thomas
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“If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.” -Heidi Klum
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“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” -Jonas Salk
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“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.” -Virginia Woolf
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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.” -Jean Anouilh
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“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.” -Henry Miller
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“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.” -Linus Torvalds
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“If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.” -Jacques Yves Cousteau
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“Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.” -Kenny Chesney
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“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety…
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“All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.” -Donald Pleasence
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“I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.” -Michael Phelps
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“We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It’s not worth their while going into work.” -David Cameron
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“Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.” -David Soul
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“I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there’s nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.” -Cicely Tyson
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“I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.” -Sanford I. Weill
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“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.” -Angela Davis
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“The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don’t have to work hard.” -Jack Welch
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“I simply do not distinguish between work and play.” -Mary Oliver
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“A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.” -Martina McBride
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“Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.” -Nicolaus Copernicus
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“We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.” -Kevin Kelly
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“If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates,’ then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.” -Dee Hock
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“According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.” -Jeff Miller
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“I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.” -Stephen Dorff
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“Italians know about human nature – they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.” -Donna Leon
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“Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.” -Walter Annenberg
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“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.” -Adam Hochschild
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“To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.” -Ralph Bunche
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“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.” -E. M. Forster
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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” -Alexander Pope
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“I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live…
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“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.” -Derek Jeter
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“Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most – that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.” -Eugene V. Debs
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“Behaving like a princess is work. It’s not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It’s more about how you are inside.” -Julie Andrews
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“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.” -Johnny Ball
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“It’s hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.” -Patricia Heaton
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“I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their…
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“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.” -George MacDonald
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“My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there’s a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.” -Lee Krasner
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“I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.” -Taylor Swift
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“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.” -Henry Van Dyke
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“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” -Robert Fulghum
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“Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.” -Marty Meehan
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“Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.” -Lee Iacocca
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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.” -Cesar Chavez
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“An honest God is the noblest work of man.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.” -Lauryn Hill
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“And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that’s when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That’s actually a disappointment.” -Randy Moss
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“Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.” -William Moulton Marston
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“I give thanks everyday that I’ve been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.” -Fritz Scholder
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“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.” -Robert Half
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“Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.” -John Steinbeck
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“While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.” -Mattie Stepanek
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“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.” -Warren Beatty
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“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.” -Marianne Williamson
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“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.” -Samuel Butler
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“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” -Carlos Castenada
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“I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” -Jerome K. Jerome
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“If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.” -James Dean
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“God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.” -Saint Teresa of Avila
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“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” -Ray Kroc
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“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.” -Gore Vidal
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“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.” -Gertrude Stein
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“I understand what’s it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.” -Don Cheadle
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“Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.” -Kevin Eubanks
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“Men’s magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women’s magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.” -Richard Roeper
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“It’s definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it’s also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don’t know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.” -Christina Aguilera
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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.” -Vaclav Havel
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“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.” -John Dewey
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“Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can’t find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here’s the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different…
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“I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.” -Colin Powell
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“I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.” -Jim Carrey
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“A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.” -Guy Kawasaki
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“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.” -James Russell Lowell
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“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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“It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.” -Pope John XXIII
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“Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.” -Annie Leibovitz
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“I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.” -Alvin Ailey
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“Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.” -Anna Pavlova
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“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.” -John Ruskin
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“Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think ‘we’re all in this together’ is a better philosophy than ‘you’re…
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“Mothers always find ways to fit in the work – but then when you’re working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you’re with your children, you’re thinking about working.” -Alice Hoffman
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“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.” -Kris Kristofferson
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“My work and my family are very important to me.” -Stephen Hawking
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“I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it’s a – knock wood – hit, the checks come in for many years.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” -Anatole France
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“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.” -John Lubbock
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“Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.” -Demi Lovato
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“People don’t understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that’s been what has gotten me this far.” -Tiger Woods
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“I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.” -Alain Prost
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“Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.” -Eileen Caddy
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“A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.” -Alanis Morissette
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“I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that’s fine.” -Marlee Matlin
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“Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.” -Phyllis Diller
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“Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.” -Harry S. Truman
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“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.” -Andy Warhol
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