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Work Quotes


"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."



"All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites."
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"My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way."


"Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work."


"Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others."


"No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work."


"Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have."


"I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city."


"Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry."
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"It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people."


"But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being."



"The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity, particularly any form of hand work. We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from."


"The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person."


"I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House."


"Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development."


"I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'."


"When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name."


"It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great."


"Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened."


"He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher."
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"That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin."


"It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to."


"We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive."


"I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past."


"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."


"Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work."
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"I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival."
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