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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the hard work starts in the gym.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.
- Concerned
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
- Lights
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair of chainsaw operator's earmuffs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my students, I'm always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it's like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, 'That's not right,' hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, 'Maybe this will walk around and work.'
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020