981 private quotes tagged work

“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.” — Magic Johnson

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“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” — John Dewey

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“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” — Dale Carnegie

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“A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell

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“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.” — Marquis de Sade

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“If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.” — Salma Hayek

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“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.” — Michael Jordan

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“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.” — Novalis

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“A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.” — Jeff Bridges

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“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.” — Ivan Illich

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“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.” — John Ruskin

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“Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.” — Nick Cave

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“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Stephen Leacock

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“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.” — Lance Armstrong

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“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.” — E. W. Howe

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“I'm working myself to death.” — Alan Ladd

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“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.” — Maria Callas

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“By the work one knows the workman.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.” — John Ruskin

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“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.” — Colin Powell

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