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Work Quotes
"Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster."
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"I sometimes go to a mythical place called 'workplace', where the doable is always unpassable as possible, especially when it pisses you off."
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"There is a need to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way."
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"I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do."
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"It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things."
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"You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn't your fault, no one listened to you. Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn't care."
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"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
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"As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications."
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"A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work."
Work,
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"If you're not a smart worker, it's about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you're not a hard worker, it's about how smart you work but times two from the brain."
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"Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all."
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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
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"But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do."
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"How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mould a pin or fabricate a nail!"
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"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
Work,
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"It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction."
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"Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters."
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
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"Human labor, the manual work that people engage in to build their world, both physical and spiritual, defines the realization of their conceptual realm."
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"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
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"I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know."
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"One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized."
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"Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent."
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"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so."
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"There is no second place for doing first rate work."
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"In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well."
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"Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here."
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"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
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"Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits."
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"My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know."
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"I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him."
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"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
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"Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures."
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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
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