Own Work Quotes

166 Own Work quotes by 155 unique authors

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of… — Seneca the Younger
To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact,… — Steve Almond
I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I donâ€™t inhale my… — Willard Wigan
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch… — Henry Petroski
I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do… — Judith Warner
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each… — Aristotle
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well,… — Tobias Wolff
I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment.… — Ernest Lawrence
The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. — Mark Twain
The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would. — Zadie Smith
At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of… — Jesse James Garrett
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high… — Ayn Rand
As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me. — Jim Hodges
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. — Joseph Wambaugh
When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense… — Jeff Koons
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own… — Truman Capote
Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities,… — Noam Chomsky
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as… — Bill Watterson

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