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Work Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions come on me…
- The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
- My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.
- I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
- I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so…
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