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Work Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
- Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules…
- Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really…
- You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
- Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
- What's really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon