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Work Quotes by Seamus Heaney
- The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of…
- The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the…
- In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And…
- It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering…
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