981 private quotes tagged work

“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.” — Eugene Ionesco

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“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” — Ralph Marston

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“One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.” — Bo Bennett

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“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.” — Edward Kennedy

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“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.” — David Sarnoff

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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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“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” — Gail Devers

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.” — Tim McGraw

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

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