981 private quotes tagged work

“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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“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.” — Michael Jackson

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“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.” — William Gibson

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“Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.” — Janet Jackson

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“I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.” — Jack White

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

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“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.” — Edward Kennedy

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“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.” — Magic Johnson

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“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.” — Michael Jordan

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“I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.” — Nick Cave

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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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“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.” — Maria Callas

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“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.” — Beatrice Wood

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“I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.” — Steven Spielberg

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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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“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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“I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.” — Dolly Parton

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“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” — Gail Devers

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“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” — Henry James

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“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.” — Charles de Lint

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“A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell

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