981 private quotes tagged work

“Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.” — Ed Bradley

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“And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.” — Eddie Murray

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“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.” — John Ruskin

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“We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.” — Earl Nightingale

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“The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.” — Havelock Ellis

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“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” — Gloria Steinem

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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.” — Maria Montessori

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“On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.” — Joel Osteen

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“As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.” — Roseanne Barr

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“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.” — Evan Esar

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“A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.” — Oliver Stone

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“Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.” — Marty Meehan

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“The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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“I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.” — Keith O'Brien

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“While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.” — Mattie Stepanek

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“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.” — Michael Jackson

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“We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.” — Charlie Sheen

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“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.” — Paul Valery

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“Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.” — Leigh Steinberg

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“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.” — William Gibson

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“I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.” — Tony Shalhoub

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“I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.” — Jack White

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“At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.” — Mehmet Oz

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“Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.” — Janet Jackson

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