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Work Quotes


"That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days."


"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."


"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."


"I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche."


"I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something."



"The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can."


"We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources."



"My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base."


"You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff."
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"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."


"I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me."


"You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up."


"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."


"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates."
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"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!"


"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."


"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"


"Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course."


"This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules."
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"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."


"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."


"The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful."



"Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft."


"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."
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