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The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans,...

Quotes by The Edge

I only work with the real Punk, like the CM Punk or the Chance the Rapper.

Quotes by The Iron Sheik

I work hard all my life and now I show the people how I come from oldest country in the world to live the America dream.

Quotes by The Iron Sheik

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

Quotes by The Mighty Hannibal

I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'

Quotes by The Notorious B.I.G.

Queering don't make the world work.

Quotes by The Ultimate Warrior

I could have been in a house show the day before being flown in to do the Survivor Series. I'd do that pay-per-view, then fly out the next day to go do another house show. The pay-per-view just happened in...

Quotes by The Ultimate Warrior

When I developed the Ultimate Warrior character and kept evolving the character, I knew, there was no question that it would work because it was working.

Quotes by The Ultimate Warrior

'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's...

Quotes by The Weeknd

When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've...

Quotes by The Weeknd

I always want to work with people that I can grow with.

Quotes by Teyana Taylor

I've enjoyed my time as an actor, but felt work was becoming repetitive.

Quotes by Thalaivasal Vijay

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

Quotes by Thandie Newton

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

Quotes by Thandie Newton

I'm not being cynical, but I have to find work that is allowing me to pay bills and keep our lives going in a way that we're used to and trying not to betray my political beliefs while I'm doing...

Quotes by Thandie Newton

The first scene I ever shot for 'Louie Bluie,' on that first day, I had never seen the camera before. I didn't know where to put it. I just knew what was strong about these guys and what I wanted...

Quotes by Terry Zwigoff

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

Quotes by Terry Zwigoff

Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor.

Quotes by Terry Zwigoff

I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him...

Quotes by Terry Zwigoff

When I first started wrestling I knew that I wanted to work as long and as hard as it took to be able to have a great match with anyone.

Quotes by Tessa Blanchard

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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