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Quotes About Work

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized'
~ Lucy R. Lippard
My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.
~ David Beckham
I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.
~ Heath Ledger
One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!
~ Gary Gygax
The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.
~ Meryl Streep
I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work
~ Will Ferrell
Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.
~ Gottlob Frege
... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
~ Odilon Redon
The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.
~ Arrigo Sacchi
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
~ Alexander Smith
You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid
~ Grace Coddington
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
~ Amartya Sen
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.
~ Carrie Mae Weems
Success is the result of hard work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
~ Mother Teresa
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
~ Barbara Sher
Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
~ Eli Wallach
There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality
~ Rahul Gandhi