- Ethic
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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
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd be in the wrong job if I had to stand in front of the mirror and push myself to go to work every day.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The titles that I have won at a young age are a further inspiration to work hard to continue to be successful.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To work a vineyard, you need a lot of guts to do that. To go out there and work all year, you almost feel that these people talk to the grapes. Wine is a lifestyle, and you can talk about it for ages. It's a passion, but it's not something I can do on a daily basis.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an astronaut, when you're getting ready to go out of that hatch, you know that's the pinnacle of both your career and your life. The view completely blows you away. The real challenge is getting past the excitement and getting focused and down to work.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends seem to think that an hour and a half effort a day is all they need to bring to the altar to make things work for them. I couldn't do that. I thought that if you didn't work at least as hard as the guy who runs a gas station, then you had no right to hope for achievement. You certainly had to work all day, every day.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
- Solution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great directors turn in mediocre work, and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and give back. That's why I was a volunteer firefighter, that's why I worked in a homeless shelter. I always knew I'd give back, elective office or not.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020