- Animal
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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
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
What goes up must come down; I'm not going to be in 'Hamilton' forever. Everything I work on won't have this kind of success.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy's White House as the place to be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
- Dinner Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.
- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to thank the BBC for allowing me to work here. And I'd like to thank the wife and kids for making it necessary.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020