Your Work Quotes
776 quotes by 602 authors
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You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
— Charlton Heston
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In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or…
— Mark Waid
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If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and…
— Jonathan Haidt
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It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work...
— Spike Lee
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Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction -…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
— Orson Scott Card
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In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able…
— Len Wein
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Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine.…
— Dick Armey
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You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the…
— Jimmy Smits
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Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it…
— Grenville Kleiser
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
— Ford Frick
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How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.
— John Ruskin
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At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I…
— Lanford Wilson
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[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let…
— Vincent de Paul
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There's a stone I had made for Luke at the top of the hill road, where the pasture opens wide and the setting sun highlights…
— Patricia McConnell
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Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back…
— Chris Zylka
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Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do…
— Graham Lowe
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