- Now
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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
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them.
- Glacier
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- Nov 07, 2020
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, winners embrace hard work.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative to engage in deep structural reform to spur growth.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even if it's how to get to work in the morning and all of that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020