- 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
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time.
- Art Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't define myself. And I'm really happy about this, that I'm not able to make a definition of, even of my work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the lucky father to two young men. When any of your kids, and your parents feel this way about you, clearly, when your kids find what they love to do and they throw themselves into it, and they find joy in the doing of it, and it's actually work that's honorable, and, you know, all of those things, it's a great feeling.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and sometimes they don't.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
- Fonda
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020