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Quotes About Work

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.
~ Sharlto Copley
I did say I don't feel as worthy as so many of the recipients ... He said he'd seen some of my work, which is amazing, and was a fan of Gavin and Stacey.
~ Sheridan Smith
I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
~ Sidney Poitier
And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
~ Simone Weil
I try to think professionally that my body is my job and just get up and do my modeling work, you always feel better after it.
~ Stella Maxwell
At the end of the day I separate things; my life is my life and my work is my work.
~ Stella McCartney
The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business.
~ Susan Cain
Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.
~ Susan Wallace
It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
~ Swami Vivekananda
What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.
~ Sylvia Plath
I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.
~ Tanya Tucker
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
~ Tennessee Williams
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
~ Thomas Huxley
Testimony bearing is the key to missionary work
~ Thomas S. Monson
Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.
~ Tim Ferriss
I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
~ Tim Roth
Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.
~ Timothy Garton Ash
I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.
~ Tina Turner
Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !
~ Unknown