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Work Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come…
- The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is…
- Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
- Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
- Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and…
- Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.…
- The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
- The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry…
- If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company.…
- [Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you…
- My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just…
- Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you…
- If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real…
- I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your…
- Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do…
- You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good…
- Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
- It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as…
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- 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 just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson