Your Work Quotes

776 quotes by 602 authors

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else. — Josh Turner
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. — Len Wein
I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or… — Robert Winston
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of… — Paulo Coelho
Never ask people about your work. — Ayn Rand
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. — Henry David Thoreau
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with… — Jack Kerouac
The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person.… — Grace Paley
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something… — Ernest Hemingway
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve… — Thomas Merton
Donâ€™t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writingâ€”and then putting your words… — Sharon Creech
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some… — Leonardo da Vinci
The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't… — James A. Baldwin
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep… — Haruki Murakami
Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who… — Stephen King
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from… — Ayn Rand
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile,… — John Gardner
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;… — Ayn Rand
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. — Ann Patchett
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. — Anna Quindlen

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