981 private quotes tagged work

“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” — Alan Watts

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“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.” — E. B. White

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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” — Pablo Picasso

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“An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.” — William Feather

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“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou

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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.” — Michael Jordan

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“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” — Pablo Picasso

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“It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.” — George Eliot

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“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.” — John Burroughs

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“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” — Carl Jung

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“Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.” — Will Rogers

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“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.” — Mark Twain

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“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.” — Michelangelo

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“Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.” — Zakk Wylde

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“Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.” — Abdul Kalam

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“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” — Anna Quindlen

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