Working It Quotes - Page 4

• When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

  Edward Norton

  Scuba, Stuff, Surf

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you have the catalog of work, it doesn't feel like you've got one shot to get it right; it's just like, you're making a new document of something at the present time, and it's a living thing, and it changes. It's been cool to help other people make their records, to produce. You get a crash course in things that you don't get as the artist.

  Blake Mills

  Artist, Helping Others, People

  "Contact: Guitar Wunderkind Blake Mills". Interview with Jacob Blickensraff, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2015.

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• At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

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• I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but you alter it. If it works, it's based on reality. That's what I try to do.

  Terry Gilliam

  Heart, Reality, Cartoon

  Source: collider.com

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• My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.

  David McCullough

  Strong, Dirty, Struggle

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The most important thing we can tell young people is not to be an imitation of somebody else. That their life is special. They are the creator of their life and their way and find something that they enjoy doing that doesn't even feel like work. It feels like a passion. And then just by doing that and bringing that to the world, they become architects of change.

  Maria Shriver

  Passion, People, Special

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

  John Cage

  Thinking, Sometimes, Method

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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• Ronald Reagan four times accepted the limits in contributions of what he could take, what he could spend, and the public funding for the general elections. So I just think the idea that it didn't work, and didn't work - it did work. It worked brilliantly.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Ideas, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I'm acting, I have zero control, and it's the scariest thing anyone can do in that field because, you know, your face is always the one that's out there in front of the camera, and any number of things can happen to you once you've done your work. It can be edited badly, it can be distributed badly, or it can not be distributed at all. And I've certainly experienced that; every actor has.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Zero, Numbers, Acting

  "Amber Tamblyn: 'I get rejected for a living'". Interview with Rachel Matlow, August 30, 2015.

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• Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

  Charles Bukowski

  Stupid, Hard Work, Mad

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• What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

  Gretchen Wilson

  Dream, Work, Crowds

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• When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

  Stan Lee

  Work, Play, People

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• This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.

  Debbie Gibson

  People, Style, Able

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• Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.

  Richard L. Evans

  Work, Blessing, Men

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• Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.

  John Lennon

  Fall, Long, Empathy

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• Right now were in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.

  Sandy Duncan

  Kings, War, Two

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• Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite theology with unusual clarity and provides important background for such well-known works as his autobiographical Deliverance from Error and his attack on Avicenna in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. This first English-language translation, with notes that bring out the argumentation and background of the work, is thus very much to be welcomed.

  Peter Adamson

  Philosophical, Errors, Islam

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• My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.

  Ralph Lauren

  Jobs, Father, Artist

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• If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.

  Roger Deakins

  Reviewers, Ifs

  "Cinematography Roundtable: Roger Deakins and 5 Other Top DPs on Angelina Jolie's Directing Style, Shooting Through Hurricanes and Film vs. Digital". Interview with Gregg Kilday and Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 2, 2014.

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• Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

  Lara Stone

  Happens

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• The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, America, Broken

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• It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

  Priscilla Presley

  Relationship, Children, Issues

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• When the Seinfeld show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. Thor is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Character, Destiny, Said

  "Holding the Hammer: JMS Talks Thor". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. October 17, 2008.

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• And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you're going through family troubles, when you're heartbroken, when you're frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Heartbroken, Things In Life, Careers

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