981 private quotes tagged work

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” — John D. Rockefeller

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“I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” — Richard Nelson Bolles

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“I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.” — Grandma Moses

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“If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.” — Will Smith

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“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” — Henry James

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“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” — Jim Rohn

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“Change yourself and your work will seem different.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.” — Johnny Depp

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“It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.” — Jim Morrison

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“Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.” — Bill Copeland

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“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.” — Jean Cocteau

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“I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.” — Joan Rivers

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“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.” — Patrick Stewart

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“It feels good to have your work respected again.” — Eminem

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“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Change is such hard work.” — Billy Crystal

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“I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.” — Tim Tebow

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“God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.” — Saint Teresa of Avila

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“Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.” — Jesse Ventura

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“Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.” — Marianne Williamson

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“I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.” — Dolly Parton

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“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.” — Charles de Lint

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“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.” — Bob Dylan

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