- Feel
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.
- Definitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
- Dearth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to work to feel well.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020