981 private quotes tagged work

“I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.” — Ang Lee

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“Work is the price which is paid for reputation.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.” — Emma Thompson

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“I work to stay alive.” — Bette Davis

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“Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.” — Thomas S. Monson

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“Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.” — Patricia Velasquez

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“These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.” — Ang Lee

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“I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.” — Bette Davis

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“If you can laugh together, you can work together.” — Robert Orben

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“What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.” — Kim Weston

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“The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?” — Simon Mainwaring

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“The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.” — Chuck Jones

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“Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.” — Constantin Stanislavski

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“My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.” — Giorgio Vasari

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“Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.” — Neil Gaiman

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“Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.” — Caspar David Friedrich

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“I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.” — Galen Rowell

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“Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.” — Tom Stoppard

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“Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.” — Rose Kennedy

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“I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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