Work Quotes - Page 6

• He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Meals

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• One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

  Paul Gallico

  Facts, Craftsman, Concentration

  Paul Gallico (1961). “Further Confessions of a Story Writer: Stories Old and New”

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• If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Passion, Interesting, Support

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• A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

  Dalai Lama

  Machines, Kind, Human Life

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• In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Ifs, I Can

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• For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

  Frank Gehry

  Motivational, Sweat, Insecurity

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• A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

  Daniel Yankelovich

  Character, America, Promise

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• You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Persistence, Rejection

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• When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Book, Writing

  "Daily routines of Nikola Tesla, Mozart, Hemingway, Woody Allen, Maya Angelou, van Gogh, Stephen King, and Nabokov" by Thomas Oppong, www.cnbc.com. February 7, 2017.

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• People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspiration, Clear Goals, People

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

  Umberto Eco

  Narrators, Machines, Should

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• Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Change, Dream, May

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

  Steven Pressfield

  Passion, Artist, Entrepreneur

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.39, Black Irish Books

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• When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

  Russel Honore

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Evil, Avoided

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Procrastination, Humor

  Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

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• Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

  J. Paul Getty

  Sitting Still, Getting High, Hours

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• The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Giving, Rewards, Ability

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Stress, Humorous

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Happiness, Business

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motivational, Success, Thinking

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• Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  World, This World

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.975, Delphi Classics

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