- Great Work
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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we played together and somehow the bassist Laurie Baker got involved as well - I can't remember exactly how.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn't work that way.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.
- Drills
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, when you're doing fitness work at a club all week and every week, it's all about specific drills for what you need to do on the pitch. So I'd be doing a different drill to the centre-midfielders. It's all specifically tailored for me. For example, my drills are high speed. It's all about trying to break the line with a sharp sprint.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I go in the gym, it will slow me down. I don't go in for weights or anything like that. Each and every person is different, and this is my way, and I'm sure if someone else tried doing what I do, then it probably wouldn't work for them.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't nice having to work full-time. It's a rise that I wouldn't have predicted, but it's a good example for younger players of what can be achieved.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020