- Night
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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
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is America after all; you have to play ball if you're going to play ball.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
- Concentrated
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wish is to be known only thru my work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to be performed for some useful end - the suffering to be comforted, the wandering led home, the sinner reclaimed. Oh! How can any fold the hands to rest and say to the spirit, 'Take thine ease, for all is well!'
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.
- Exploited
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- Nov 07, 2020