981 private quotes tagged work

“Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.” — Mel Brooks

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“I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.” — Edward Hopper

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“The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'” — Matthew Macfadyen

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“The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.” — Ang Lee

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“We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.” — Bo Bennett

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“In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“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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“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.” — Evan Esar

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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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