Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the...
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
To come to the theatre, people have to make arrangements, change their clothes, find a babysitter, find a parking space - and they don't come after hard work to hear a lecture.
I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
I would jump at the chance to work with the inordinately-talented J.J. Abrams on a new 'Star Trek' film.
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms,...
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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There's also a lighter side - people unwinding after work to talk through life's bigger questions over drinks. See Effort Quotes and Goal Quotes for more on getting things done.
