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Work Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done…
- I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
- But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know…
- Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see…
- Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX…
- The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases…
- With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these…
- Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling…
- Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room…
- It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one…
- You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light…
- It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll…
- Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows.…
- Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.…
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