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Work Quotes
"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
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"I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst."
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"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."
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"George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!"
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"I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."
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"It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning."
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"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
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"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
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"This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats."
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"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven."
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"Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly."
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"The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms."
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"Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration."
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"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."
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"He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work."
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"I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work."
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"But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals."
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"Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work."
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"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"
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"No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes."
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"Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large."
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"When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'."
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"I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there."
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"I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day."
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"I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut."
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"Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work."
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"There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else."
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"Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value."
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"In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages."
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"For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard."
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"You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect."
Work,
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"The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?"
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"As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again."
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