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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
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
If motivation is an issue, I would try to get out of your house to work out, not just go into the basement.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walking is great because it's an amazing exercise, and it also helps to clear your head and relieve any built-up stress before the work day begins.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never sweat about work. I just assume work's coming.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the center of President Obama's strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It's supposed be filled by a 'Sunni ground force,' but after more than a year of effort, it's still not there. Unless this gap is filled, Obama's plan won't work.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020