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Quotes About Work

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.
~ Terry Gilliam
The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.
~ Terry Gilliam
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
~ Terry Gross
There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.
~ Terry Gross
It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.
~ Terry Pratchett
It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.
~ Terry Pratchett
I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
~ Thandie Newton
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.
~ Theodor Adorno
I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work you need to.
~ Theodora Goss
So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.
~ Theodora Goss
It's very difficult to put in the work unless you believe that what you're doing is significant in some way.
~ Theodora Goss
In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.
~ Theophilus London
If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.
~ Thom Yorke
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
~ Thomas Aquinas
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
~ Thomas Carlyle
He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A man's perfection is his work.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business.
~ Thomas E. Dewey