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Quotes 1121 till 1140 of 1709.

  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Novalis The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Novalis The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Adam Ferguson The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Emile Zola The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
    Emile Zola
    French writer (1840 - 1902)
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  • Arthur Erickson The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • W. Edwards Deming The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
    W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • John Ruskin The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Plato The beginning is the most important part of the work.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bob Newhart The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Sir William Osler The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Berton Braley The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
    Berton Braley
     
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  • John Ruskin The best work never was and never will be done for money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • William Carlos Williams The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Michael Korda The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Anthony Kennedy The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
    Anthony Kennedy
    American lawyer and jurist (1936 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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