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Work Quotes


"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."


"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."


"I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut."
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"And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done."
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"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."


"When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making."


"In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists."


"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them."


"We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help."


"The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed."


"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."


"Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments."


"The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing."


"Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from."


"It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting."


"The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together."


"We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security."


"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."


"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."


"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."


"If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer."


"I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most."
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"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."


"So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers."


"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities."


"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."


"The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work."
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