- How
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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
- Missed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised that in my last two bodies of work - the mural and the Chanel pieces - that I didn't use any make-up because I was changing the faces digitally, and I realised I missed make-up in a major way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my work is about me or my private life.
- Classroom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm training for a fight, I work out two or three times a day for five days a week.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, 'Goodbye,' but it didn't work out that way.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was work at the time. And in rural Oklahoma, that wasn't easy to find.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we are clear that it is right that those who work hard, generate wealth and create jobs for our country are rewarded, where failure is rewarded or people award themselves huge pay rises that bear no relation to performance or what their companies can bear, trust is severely undermined.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020