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Quotes About Work

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.
~ Patti Smith
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
~ Paul Cezanne
Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.
~ Paul Emsley
Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
~ Paul Gauguin
Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.
~ Paul Gauguin
I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.
~ Paul Goldberger
I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.
~ Paul Hirsch
I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.
~ Paul Hogan
Persistence and love of one's work is the key.
~ Unknown
Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.
~ Unknown
For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.
~ Paz Vega
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.
~ Pete Conrad
This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.
~ Pete Hamill
I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.
~ Peter Fonda
If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.
~ Peter J. Carroll
In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.
~ Peter Sotos
I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
~ Peter Ustinov
Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.
~ Peter Weir
Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well
~ Pharrell Williams
The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.
~ Phil Donahue
The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
~ Philip Larkin
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
~ Philip Levine
I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman