Working So Hard Quotes

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Jobs, Independent, People

  "Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer on Sundance Stalkers and Passing the Bechdel Rule". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. January 28, 2011.

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• Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!

  Camila Alves

  Way, Life Is, Easy

  "Camila Alves: On What Inspires Her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the other person is meeting our needs. We still believe in commitment, because we know that committed relationships are good for us, but powerful voices coming from inside and outside tell us that we are suckers if we settle for less than we think we need and deserve in our marriage. Most baby boomers and their offspring carry in our heads the internalized voice of the consumer culture-to encourage us to stop working so hard or to get out of a marriage that is not meeting our current emotional needs.

  William J Doherty

  Baby, Powerful, Believe

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• Why are we working so hard to preserve Iraq, a fake country to begin with? Why do we care whether this fake country that was drawn on the map 100 years ago remains?

  Bill Maher

  Country, Years, Iraq

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• It is good to be God, yeah. It's nice to get the recognition that I've been working so hard for.

  Misha Collins

  Nice, Recognition, Yeah

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4.0] or not, you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.

  Eric Schmidt

  Phones, Google, Want

  "Google's Schmidt: Android Leads the iPhone" by Stephen Shankland, www.cnet.com. December 07, 2011.

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• I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

  Claude Monet

  Sea, Relaxation, Able

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically just a keeping up with the Joneses or let's buy the markers of success because this is what I'm supposed to have and this is what I'm supposed to do. And they are working so hard that they don't even have the time to think about what they might actually desire.

  Larkin Grimm

  Thinking, Fancy Cars, House

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

  William Monahan

  Directors, Facts, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

  Anthea Turner

  Lucky, Celebrate, Contracts

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Done, Sometimes, Realizing

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Order, Foundation, Want

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

  Sher Valenzuela

  Community, Small Business, Our Community

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• You're working so hard and so many hours, you simply don't get to visit with everybody when you're gone for five months. That's part of the trade in we make with this career. You don't get to maintain the intimacy you would like to.One of the big things I was doing was working on reestablishing that.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Careers, Gone, Months

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Most of the young people I know are working so hard, 60 or 70 hours a week. They have no time for recreation or love affairs; it's just work and struggle. I want them to endure, and find that strength and be able to continue.

  Cleve Jones

  Struggle, People, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Awards, White Privilege, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Dancer, Chinese, Groups

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• I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

  Usher

  Hard

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• I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

  Camille Claudel

  Pennies, Scared, Imagine

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• But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

  Shane Claiborne

  Dream, College, Together

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Crazy, Ideas, Forever

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