- Joy
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every movie that I've picked, from my first film on, has been considered by everyone to be 'career suicide.' And I have an amazing life. I have an amazing career. I work with artists. But I'm not making 'Spider-Man.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.
- Diversion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science. Improving the way that science is done means speeding us along in curing cancer, solving the problem of climate change and launching humanity permanently into space.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020