- Important
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like relaxed sets. I like to feel that I can make a mistake without feeling like I'm costing somebody money. I like a sense of freedom. I like it when people are open and are willing to let you do your work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider myself a comedian, but you work with some comedians, and sometimes these guys are incredible on their feet - it's just amazing - and that's not what I do. But it's always fun, and I don't really care as long as the character is interesting.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get a chance to work with them.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The suburb in the 1950s was a bedroom community. The father worked in the city, and the mother stayed home. Now people live and work in the suburbs, and businesses have grown up or moved from cities to certain pockets of what was once the suburbs and created these places that are like cities.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020