- Love
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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
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a dream for me to work with Ron MacLean and Don Cherry as well as my old friend Jeff Marek, who I started my career with.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.
- Goethe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.
- Three
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three takes. You're either going to get it, or you're not going to get it. There's no use persisting; it just had to work that way.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020