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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At work, you want to stand out but not in extra-funky ways. At the core, it's about dressing for girls - who are most of my fans - and you want to dress up for them. You just want to feel like you're on top of your game.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in world domination. I'm interested in running a nice little brand that takes care of its own and does really good work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work for a place that's been great to me over the years, and when you make a mistake, you're hurting your company as well.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.
- Nov 07, 2020