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Quotes About Work

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.
~ Geoff Thompson
The truth is you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is a all-pervading Divine power of love. This power of love does all the living work.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.
~ Peter Drucker
If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.
~ Mark Twain
My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.
~ Douglas Preston
There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
~ Ayn Rand
I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.
~ Fiona Gubelmann
Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.
~ John Paul DeJoria
If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.
~ James Agee
Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.
~ Denzel Washington
We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.
~ Baltasar Gracian
There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.
~ Jose Eduardo dos Santos
I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.
~ Marc Forster
The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
~ Oprah Winfrey
My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.
~ Fiona Wood
I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.
~ Joel Kinnaman
The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.
~ Morris Graves
Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.
~ Steve Buscemi
Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.
~ Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
~ H. L. Mencken
Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.
~ Allen Rosenberg
You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
~ Jamie Campbell Bower