My Work Quotes
1534 My Work quotes by 1151 unique authors
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I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take…
— Maya Angelou
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All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.
— Stephen Hawking
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I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to…
— Will Smith
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Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask…
— Oswald Chambers
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Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my…
— Amedeo Modigliani
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has…
— H.G. Wells
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My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the…
— Maya Angelou
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To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? (suicide note)
— George Eastman
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If I did not have my work, I would not have my life.
— Temple Grandin
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In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do…
— Violet Fane
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I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.
— Joseph Fiennes
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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains…
— Shirley Jackson
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I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal, is the same…
— Thomas S. Monson
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All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality…
— Lee Krasner
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I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work,…
— Tina Turner
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the…
— Oscar Wilde
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If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and…
— Johannes Kepler
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A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.
— Paul Dirac
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It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model…
— Alexander Calder
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I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I…
— Henri Matisse
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While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown…
— Mark Epstein
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
— David Geffen
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