Quotes with work-driven

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1764.

  • Ovid People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Louisa May Alcott People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Anatole Broyard People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Aldous Huxley People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Andy Warhol People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • William Hazlitt People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Carolyn Chute People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Barry Lopez People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' - to work for and hope for.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Carolyn Chute People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Barry Schwartz People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Andy Hertzfeld People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Ogden Nash People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Vince Lombardi People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Robin George Collingwood Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • W. H. Auden Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Margaret Oliphant Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Newt Gingrich Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
    Newt Gingrich
    American statesman and author (1943 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ''ethic.''
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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