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Quotes About Work

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.
~ Vladimir Guerrero
Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
~ Voltaire
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
~ Voltaire
Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.
~ Wally Wood
Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
~ Walter Annenberg
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently.
~ Walter J. Phillips
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.
~ Walter J. Phillips
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
~ Walter Jon Williams
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
~ Walter Koenig
In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.
~ Walter Martin
I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
~ Waris Ahluwalia
The art of love is God at work through you.
~ Wilferd Peterson
Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
~ Willem Dafoe
Forestry is the work of nation builders.
~ Unknown
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
~ William Butler Yeats
The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
~ William Feather
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
~ William Gaddis
All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
~ William Hurt
Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
~ William James
Work done by human beings for human beings.
~ Unknown
Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.
~ William Morris Hunt