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Work Quotes by Alain de Botton
- I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.
- It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you…
- I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the…
- In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work…
- Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of…
- Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
- No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at…
- People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
- Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
- If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a…
- A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
- A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
- There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach