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Work Quotes


"It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work."


"Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that."


"You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances."


"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better."


"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."


"Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried."
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"I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath."


"If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work."


"With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it."


"It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense."


"I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies."


"Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers."


"In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing."


"Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand."


"We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right."


"Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance."


"I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier."


"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."


"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done."
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"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."


"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."


"I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well."


"In the summertime, we do a lot of video work. With that, I can show them if their head is moving too far or if the ball position or alignment isn't right."


"The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say."


"So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments."


"I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's."


"The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them."


"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"
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