Famous Quotes: Work

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
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In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
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But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.
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The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
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Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.
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I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
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