- Crazy
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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
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I work in San Francisco doing stand-up, I usually schedule it for July, and we'll drive up the coast and camp in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, and we'll just camp our way up the coast, and then we'll get to San Francisco and hang out there for four days.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn't, like, cashing Social Security checks; he wasn't hanging out - he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.
- Trying
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're trying to recruit a senior product manager from Hewlett-Packard, he doesn't want to work in a garage.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of these kids have gone to Montana State University and become engineers, but they go to work for Boeing in Seattle. They would have stayed if there had been a job here.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 33 years old, I didn't have to work anymore. I had to search through 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life?' I wasn't ready to fly-fish for the rest of my life.
- Enough People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.
- Punk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn't the same as English punk. It wasn't a working-class movement that was protesting the conditions under which this class had to work. I don't think American punk ever died.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to live life and not work every second of the day, and spend time with my family and stuff like that. Balance is very important for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020