981 private quotes tagged work

“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.” — Isak Dinesen

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“I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.” — David Bowie

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“You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.” — Henry Miller

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“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.” — Michelle Obama

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“What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.” — Erykah Badu

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“I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.” — Rand Paul

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“Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'” — William J. Clinton

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“The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.” — Scott Adams

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“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.” — George W. Bush

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“Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.” — William Moulton Marston

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“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.” — John Ruskin

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“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.” — Virginia Woolf

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“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.” — Erma Bombeck

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“I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.” — Alfred Eisenstaedt

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“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.” — Stendhal

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“Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.” — Leigh Steinberg

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“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.” — Paul Valery

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“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.” — Allen Boyd

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“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?” — Barbra Streisand

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“We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.” — Alvar Aalto

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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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“By the work one knows the workman.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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