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Work Quotes by Mary Oliver
- My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
- Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
- I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.
- If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much…
- People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
- Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
- My work is loving the world.
- Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
- I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
- To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
- My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums...
- The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and…
- I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept…
- I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a…
- I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in…
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