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If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

Quotes by Thomas Hoving

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

Quotes by Thomas Hoving

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

Quotes by Thomas Hunt Morgan

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.

Quotes by Thomas Ian Nicholas

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

Quotes by Thomas J. Sargent

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

Quotes by Thomas J. Sargent

There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordinary is their ability to accumulate wealth, how hard they work, and what they do for a living.

Quotes by Thomas J. Stanley

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

Quotes by Thomas Heatherwick

I've always been interested in projects that work at multiple levels.

Quotes by Thomas Heatherwick

The studio does projects all over the world, and in each place, we focus on trying to make a project specific to that place. We take a different perspective everywhere we work - our passion is public projects, wherever they...

Quotes by Thomas Heatherwick

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

Quotes by Thomas Gibson

One of the things that I'd like to get back to that I did as a younger actor was to work on, you know, a rep season for a summer where you did two or three Shakespeares, and you'd do...

Quotes by Thomas Gibson

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

Quotes by Thomas Friedman

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

Quotes by Thomas Friedman

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Quotes by Thomas Friedman

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in...

Quotes by Thomas Friedman

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Quotes by Thomas Fuller

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

Quotes by Thomas Dekker

I urge North Korea's leaders to reflect on Burma's experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

Quotes by Thomas E. Donilon

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are on the "Work" page?
These lean toward the thoughtful side of work — the idea that "intellectual work is essentially a lonely process," the belief that one's politics and "the character of his particular work are inseparable," and an image of people unwinding after work all over the world talking about life's bigger questions.
Is there a spiritual angle to any of these?
While these particular quotes are secular, if you're looking for a spiritual perspective on work, see Prayers for that theme.
Do these quotes connect work to personal identity?
Yes, one of the strongest lines here argues that your politics and "the character of his particular work are inseparable" — the idea that what you do reflects who you are. If that resonates, Growth quotes explore a similar idea of work shaping the person.
Is there anything here about effort or persistence?
These specific quotes focus more on the nature and meaning of work than on effort itself, but Effort quotes cover that ground directly.
What about setting goals through work?
For that angle, Goal quotes is the better fit — the "Work" page here is more about the character and process of working itself.

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