Famous Quotes: Work

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.
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What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.
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You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.
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I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
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It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
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The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
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I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.
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