- People
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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
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To build a character like Henry Warnimont required a few weeks and months of work. It turned out he was basically a very kind and generous man, which he covered up with his surface gruffness and surface bluster. And the kind of hopeless quality, that 'everything goes wrong' kind of thing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.
- Soldier
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of movie stars don't want to go to TV because of how hard you have to work. You have to be a soldier.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around '93, I had to get a couple of jobs. I had a job for a while working at a gym, just so I could work out for free, because I knew if I didn't exercise, I'd go crazy. It's the key to my mental health, actually.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my father's skepticism fueled me to work harder.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work.
- Corollary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020