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Work Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another…
- I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply…
- I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. What is that thing? And how are we…
- I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
- But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it…
- Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever…
- How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?
- You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can…
- You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
- In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …
- Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that…
- Why must everything be repeat and repeat, never finish, never resting? You work so hard one day, but the next day you must only work…
- Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal…
- What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.
- Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the…
- She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though…
- You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing?…
- Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades…
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