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Quotes About Work

Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.
~ Alexa Vega
My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.
~ Unknown
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.
~ Alexander MacLaren
When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.
~ Alia Shawkat
The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.
~ Alicia Keys
I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.
~ Amber Hollibaugh
How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
~ Amy Adams
It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles.
~ Ana Gasteyer
I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.
~ Andy Rooney
For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].
~ Angelina Jolie
A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.
~ Angus Stone
I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen
~ Ani DiFranco
Not too many people can say they love what they do and they really like the people they work with.
~ Anthony Mackie
If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.
~ Anton Chekhov
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
~ Anton Chekhov
You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.
~ Anton Chekhov
I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.
~ Armand Assante
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
~ Unknown
I'm so jealous of people who have crushes on people they go to school with, or work with. That's such a blessing. You actually get to see them all the time and spend time with them.
~ Aziz Ansari
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
~ B. C. Forbes
My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
~ Balthazar Getty
Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
~ John Wooden
I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.
~ John Zorn