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Work Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
- If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but…
- There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad…
- I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like f***ing — which is fun only for amateurs. Old…
- I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved…
- One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel…
- The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow…
- I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They…
- I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively…
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