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Work Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work…
- I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
- I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time…
- Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and…
- Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can…
- In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.
- Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would…
- It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his…
- If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
- What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.
- New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
- You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
- kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness…
- You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it…
- Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
- I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies…
- Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or…
- Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.
- A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.
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