981 private quotes tagged work

“I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.” — Neil Armstrong

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“My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.” — Alice Walker

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“I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.” — Nigel Mansell

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“I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.” — Mandy Patinkin

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“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” — John D. Rockefeller

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“The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.” — Adam Lambert

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“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” — Carlos Castaneda

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“The greatest weariness comes from work not done.” — Eric Hoffer

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“And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!” — Jim Valvano

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“You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.” — Joe E. Lewis

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“You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.” — Alan Alda

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“I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.” — Henry Rollins

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“A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.” — Oliver Stone

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“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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“It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.” — James M. Barrie

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“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.” — Simone Weil

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“I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.” — L'Wren Scott

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“We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.” — Pete Coors

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“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.” — Peter McWilliams

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“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.” — James Allen

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“Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.” — Mark Harmon

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“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” — Thornton Wilder

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“I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.” — Ramakrishna

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