Work Quotes

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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate.… — Edward Abbey
Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the… — Edward Abbey
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and… — Edward Abbey
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet. — Zadie Smith
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague… — George Orwell
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I… — George Orwell
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding,… — Frederic Bastiat
O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my… — George Washington
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it.… — Richard Avedon
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very… — Annie Leibovitz
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends… — Annie Leibovitz
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder… — Annie Leibovitz
You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing… — Robert Adams
I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do. — George Michael
When you work with words, words are your work. — Don Knotts
The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do… — Isaac Asimov
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction. — Kurt Vonnegut
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… — Kurt Vonnegut
Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the… — Orson Scott Card
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards. — J.R.R. Tolkien
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised… — Margaret Atwood
I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It… — Margaret Atwood
Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to… — Ray Bradbury

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