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Work Quotes by Charles de Lint
- The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
- Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
- Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the…
- A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still carry elements of…
- Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do…
- It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
- The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like…
- People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in…
- From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a…
- The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in…
- As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want…
- It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems…
- Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It…
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