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Work Quotes


"The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult."


"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."


"Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on."


"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."


"In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty."


"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."


"But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals."


"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it."


"Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end."


"The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired."


"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."


"We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us."


"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."


"Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them."


"We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation."


"There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline."


"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective."


"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it."


"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."


"Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas."


"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."


"I'm always pleased when people respond to the work."


"The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula."


"You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in."


"Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry."


"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."
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