981 private quotes tagged work

“I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.” — Harvey Fierstein

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“Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.” — Vidal Sassoon

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“Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.” — John Ruskin

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“Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.” — Maria Bartiromo

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“One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

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“I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!” — Harvey Fierstein

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“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.” — Agha Hasan Abedi

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“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.” — Lillie Langtry

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“I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.” — Harvey Fierstein

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“When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.” — John Dewey

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“People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.” — Tiger Woods

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“To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.” — Harvey Fierstein

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“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.” — Charles Kingsley

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“I think the best place to work in football is England.” — Jose Mourinho

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“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” — Bette Davis

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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” — Theodore Isaac Rubin

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“Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.” — Lauryn Hill

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“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.” — Derek Jeter

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“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” — Carlos Castenada

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“I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.” — Fritz Scholder

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“I don't work at being ordinary.” — Paul McCartney

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“I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.” — Colin Powell

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“How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?” — Rush Limbaugh

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