981 private quotes tagged work

“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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“Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.” — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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“Management must manage!” — Harold S. Geneen

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“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.” — Adam Hochschild

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“For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.” — Doug Larson

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“God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.” — Minnie Pearl

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“Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” — Thomas Sowell

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“I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.” — Michael Phelps

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“The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.” — Gabriel Heatter

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“I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.” — Tim Tebow

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“Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.” — Gillian Anderson

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“A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'” — Daniel Goleman

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“Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” — George Herbert

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“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.” — Constantin Brancusi

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“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.” — Chief Joseph

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“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” — Michael Jordan

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“There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!” — Jimmy Smits

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“Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.” — George Halas

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“You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.” — Julie Benz

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“My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.” — Mark Warner

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