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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
Henry Rollins
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell
Will it, and set to work briskly.
Friedrich Schiller
My job is never work -- the only time it seems like work is when I'd rather be doing something else.
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If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without any work and effort.
Leo Tolstoy
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. Mencken
I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.
Ang Lee
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
James Dean
All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
Donald Pleasence
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Tennyson
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi
