Real Work Quotes - Page 3

• I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Every Person Has a Purpose" by Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2009.

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• I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.

  Alice Munro

  Jobs, Children, Real

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 05, 2011

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• All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

  Donald Pleasence

  Real, Done, Rehearsal

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• I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

  Liam Neeson

  Real, Thinking, Luck

  "Liam Neeson - 'A sex symbol? Flattering, but I don't think so'" by Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. April 5, 2012.

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• Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

  Robert Harris

  Real, Writing, Done

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• Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

  Junot Diaz

  Real, Mentor, Done

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• I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Beautiful, Art, Real

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• I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

  Natasha Richardson

  Inspiring, Daughter, Mother

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• The real work is in the Heart:
  Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
  Then it needs no Friend.

  Rabia Basri

  Inspirational, Friends, Wise

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• My work is writing, but my real work is being.

  William Saroyan

  Real, Writing

  William Saroyan (1984). “The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William Saroyan”, Creative Arts Book Company

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• The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

  Larry Constantine

  Teamwork, Real, People

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• Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Real, Winning, Religion

  Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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• [Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Real, Greed, Lists

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Real, Games

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• It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

  William Feather

  Real, Work, Competition

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• I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.

  Jill McCorkle

  Real, Writing, Together

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• The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Sheryl Sandberg's Speech on Harvard Business School Class Day in Cambridge, Massachusetts., www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people. . . .The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Real, Commitment, Numbers

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• Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Talking, Dozen

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit.

  Ali MacGraw

  Real, Thinking, Years

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• Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have real work to do and a lot of it, so they don't have a whole lot of free time on their hands.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Jobs, Real

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.76, Penguin

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• I hear you guys all the time talking about Daniel Bryan, trained by Shawn Michaels. One curious thing to me is, how come you guys never mention William Regal? William Regal did the real work with this young man. Shawn Michaels took $3,000 from him, that's all he ever did.

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, Real, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.

  Aisha Tyler

  Running, Wall, Sorry

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• Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Real, Swimming, Pals

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