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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.
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- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was playing for a club in mid-table, I could make three or four mistakes, and no one would notice because the analysis is not at the top level. But when you play for a big club, every little mistake is highlighted. So every day, you work, work, work.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years, and then we'd move again. That was just for my dad's work.
- Fantasy World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers - everyone in the team.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The education business is a little murky because by 1900, it has been pretty well decided that a certain amount of education was required to make the system of repression work. You had to have people who showed up punctually. You had to have people who took their orders obediently and understand them fully.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020