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Quotes About Work

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
~ Jay Chiat
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
~ Art Spiegelman
Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.
~ Bernie Glassman
Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.
~ Budd Hopkins
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
~ Kenneth Tynan
The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.
~ Gustav Landauer
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
~ Elliott Jaques
The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time.
~ Valentino Rossi
If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.
~ Byron Katie
In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.
~ Robert Mueller
Everyone has their own approach to how they work.
~ Hayden Christensen
I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.
~ Paul McCartney
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
~ Sean Lennon
If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
~ Corita Kent
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.
~ Jim Otto
So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.
~ Maria Menounos
Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.
~ Alan Menken
Every hour of useful work is precious.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
~ Jo Brand
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
~ Marie Osmond
You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
~ LL Cool J