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Work Quotes
"God made the integers; all else is the work of man."
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"There is no room for emotion in business."
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"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
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"But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show."
Work,
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"Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!"
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"The well-cared-for woman is a parasite, and the woman who must work is a slave."
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"The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission's work and use it to make certain that such horrific attacks never occur again."
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"I cannot call somebody 'hard-working' knowing only that they read and write. Even if 'all night long' is added, I cannot say it " not until I know the focus of all this energy."
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"I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script."
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"Work is simply, "force x distance or the product of a force applied to an object and the displacement of the object in the direction of the applied force, holding an object in the air does not involve any work, no matter how painful your hand will be after a few minutes, reflect on your daily activities and the results from them. Are you really working or just increasing your potential without progress or desired results? Your work must produce some movement, progress and change, by effectively using all your energies whether intellectual or physical."
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"It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it."
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"You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that-if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is-I wouldn't give twopence for him'- here Caleb's mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers- 'whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn't do well what he undertook to do."
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"Employers are like horses - they require management."
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"It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important."
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"The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work."
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"You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?"
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"Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."
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"The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top."
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"Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted to get ahead, you had to work. He said this was the law of life and it was no way to get around it because it was inscribed on the human heart like love thy neighbour. He said these two laws were the team that worked together to make the world go round and that any individual who wanted to be a success and win the pursuit of happiness, that was all he needed to know."
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"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman."
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"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
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"All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work."
Work,
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"Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete or designing computer knit sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of intentions."
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"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."
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