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Work Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION,…
- The harder I work, the luckier I become.
- I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than…
- The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if…
- Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how…
- The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has…
- It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there…
- If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who…
- There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in…
- And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly…
- Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
- He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction…
- A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds…
- Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other…
- One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.
- And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to…
- Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows."…
- Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.
- They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and…
- They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is…
- [Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world…
- The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try…
- The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some…
- Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen…
- I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
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