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Work Quotes


"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach."


"The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can."
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"Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill."


"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died."


"I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much."


"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."


"Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves."


"There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous."


"I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with."


"We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future."


"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."


"The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities."


"I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything."


"In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies."


"I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work."


"My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry."


"You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work."


"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."


"My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard."


"The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech."


"You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect."
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"I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved."


"But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby."
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"Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better."


"When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive."


"I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it."


"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."


"You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered."


"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection."


"Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten."
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