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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.
- Nov 07, 2020
Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work in both very strict conditions and very loose, more open-minded conditions in advertising, and Nike is by far the most open-minded of all.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why I'm sending my super-intellectual 12-year old kid to tech school is because I don't believe he would succeed in this world unless he first learned to work with his hands.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was willing to accept a bad reputation if I deserved it, but it was going to be based on my actions, not on anybody's history. I'm not running from my family - I couldn't embrace my family more. But I wanted to work in an industry where I could define myself, not be defined by my grandfather's history.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friends think your life is so glamorous, and it is. But there are times when, instead of going to a glamorous party, I would rather just come home from work, pop in a DVD and eat some microwave popcorn with a cutie on the sofa.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
You work with the communities to make films. And you just don't go in and take over their territory.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a family that was committed to service, to reaching out and helping others. That's what inspired me to work in public service.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020