My Work Quotes
1534 My Work quotes by 1151 unique authors
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It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really…
— Robert Jay Lifton
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It's still difficult for me to watch my work.
— Sheryl Lee
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I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.
— Anson Mount
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I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I…
— Ben Marcus
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
— Ian McShane
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I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
— Joe Wright
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If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way…
— S. Robson Walton
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My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.
— Eva Zeisel
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
— Chinua Achebe
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Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
— Ben Kingsley
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Peace comes from living a measured life. Peace comes from attending to every part of my world in a sacramental way. My relationships are not…
— Joan D. Chittister
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A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of…
— Gerhard Richter
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When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel…
— Gerhard Richter
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I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That…
— Gerhard Richter
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I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. I…
— Gerhard Richter
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There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today...…
— Charles Dickens
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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
— Nikola Tesla
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Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my…
— Pablo Picasso
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...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table,…
— Jan Karon
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I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines…
— Jan Karon
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My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains…
— Jan Karon
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I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
— Jerry Lewis
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