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Work Quotes by Leonard Cohen
- We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very…
- Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work…
- I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard…
- Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or…
- One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced…
- I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he…
- It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies…
- Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small…
- He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up…
- The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the…
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