981 private quotes tagged work

“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.” — Johnny Depp

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“We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.” — Jose Marti

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“A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.” — Guy Kawasaki

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“Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.” — Kevin Eubanks

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“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.” — Marianne Williamson

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“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” — Peter Drucker

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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.” — Vaclav Havel

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“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.” — Alexander Woollcott

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“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.” — Ron Paul

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“Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.” — Milton Friedman

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“The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.” — Milton Friedman

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“We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.” — Colin Powell

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“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.” — E. W. Howe

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“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Stephen Leacock

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“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.” — John Ruskin

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“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.” — Jeff Bridges

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“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.” — Marquis de Sade

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“I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.” — Paris Hilton

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“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” — Dale Carnegie

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