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Work Quotes by James Lee Burke
- Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
- If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about…
- When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.
- writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the…
- Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its…
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