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Work Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
- I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle,…
- When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours…
- The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
- I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a…
- Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you…
- I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
- Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
- We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake…
- I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is…
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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 just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell