981 private quotes tagged work

“The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.” — Milton Friedman

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“The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?” — Rush Limbaugh

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“Whether for life or death, do your own work well.” — John Ruskin

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“Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.” — Milton Friedman

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“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.” — Beatrice Wood

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“I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.” — Steven Spielberg

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“If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.” — Ron Paul

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“Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.” — Jeff Bridges

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“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.” — Alexander Woollcott

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“Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.” — Eddie Van Halen

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“I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.” — Dolly Parton

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“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.” — Vaclav Havel

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“Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.” — Helen Hayes

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“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” — Peter Drucker

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“There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!” — Richard P. Feynman

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“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.” — Marianne Williamson

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“Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.” — Kevin Eubanks

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“Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.” — Marilyn vos Savant

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“A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.” — Guy Kawasaki

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“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.” — Brian Tracy

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“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.” — Virginia Woolf

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“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.” — Johnny Depp

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