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Quotes About Work

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.
~ Jeff Cox
You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.
~ Jeff Daniels
I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.
~ Jeff Goldblum
I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.
~ Jessa Crispin
I wanted to work in either Miami or L.A. After Canada, I wanted warm weather
~ Jillian Barberie
When you have growth and development, you have more work to do in the fire business. Thats going to be the reality in the future.
~ Jim Sinclair
As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never a place in which to paint them.
~ Joaquin Sorolla
I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed.
~ Joe Lando
I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.
~ Joe Lando
One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.
~ Joe Morton
I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.
~ Joely Richardson
...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want to give you their good fruit. By keeping small I can put my heart into it.
~ Unknown
A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.
~ John Kao
Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.
~ John Kapelos
Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
~ John Lydon
It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.
~ John Mayer
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!
~ John Muir
Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.
~ John Negroponte
Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.
~ John Ruskin
Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.
~ John Steinbeck
The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.
~ John Zachary Young
There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.
~ Jordan Wolfson