981 private quotes tagged work

“Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.” — Kenny Chesney

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“I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.” — Henry Rollins

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“All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.” — Donald Pleasence

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“A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.” — Martina McBride

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“Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.” — Angela Davis

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“But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.” — David Bowie

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“I simply do not distinguish between work and play.” — Mary Oliver

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“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.” — Jeff Miller

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“I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.” — Henry Rollins

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“The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.” — Henry Miller

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“Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.” — David Soul

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“We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.” — David Cameron

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“Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'” — Henry Miller

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“To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.” — Ralph Bunche

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“We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.” — Kevin Kelly

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“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” — Bette Davis

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“Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.” — Roger Staubach

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“At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.” — Drew Barrymore

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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.” — E. O. Wilson

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“If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.” — Albert Ellis

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“I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.” — Cicely Tyson

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“Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.” — John Burroughs

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“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” — Jonas Salk

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