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Work Quotes


"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."



"Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."


"For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be."


"Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products."


"Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people."


"I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that."


"Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals."


"From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work."


"I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad."



"The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains."


"A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany."


"Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more."
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"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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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."


"I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution."


"He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask....On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live."


"The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes."


"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work."


"The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before."


"Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag."
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"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."


"But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them."


"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."


"I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it."


"Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible."



"I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned."


"I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal."


"Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory."
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