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“We will not shy away from engaging in the hard work to take on the damaging legacy of slavery and our treatment of Native Americans, or from doing the daily work of addressing systemic racism and violence against Black, Native, Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and other communities of color.”
Joe Biden (born 1942) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (21 March 2021)
“Tell me, pleez, my sawl, when will I live in human way, that is, to work and not to be in need? Now I work, and I'm in need, and I spoil my reputation by the need to write bullshit.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Alexander Chekhov (April 14, 1887)
“In the interests of our people, and of other people in this part of the world, let's work together. Why do we have to exclude people because of their colour, whether they are white, brown, yellow or black? Let's accept that we are all a part of Africa, all part of the world. Let's all work together. And the more we can get people to accept that philosophy, the greater the hope for the whole world.”
Ian Smith (1919–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.”
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Newsweek (30 March 1981)
“In recent years, hours of work have been reduced, holidays have been increased, the age of entry into employment has gone up, and above all, our general health and expectation of life as a people have markedly improved. It is a natural corollary of these changes that we should work longer and retire later.”
Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Budget speech in the House of Commons (10 April 1951)
“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”
Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.”
Jonathan Ive (born 1967) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A reference to the Apple design team, in an interview at the Design Museum (2003)
“Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let's not worry about what somebody reading the code tomorrow is going to think. Let's not worry about whether it's efficient. Let's not even worry about whether it will work. Let's just write the simplest thing that could possibly work.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My hope is that wiki becomes a totem for a way of interacting with people. Tradition in the work world has been more top down, while wiki, standing for the Internet, is becoming a model for a new way of work. Largely driven by reduced communication costs, it changes what needs to be done and how it’s going to get done. I hope that the wiki nature, if not the wiki code, makes some contribution.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The blogosphere is a community that might produce a work. Whereas a wiki is a work that might produce a community. It’s all just people communicating.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Top down hierarchies make communication work when it is expensive, I hope that wiki can be a flagship in this move in the industry to produce computer support for this kind of work and evolve organizational forms.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Montagu calls himself my disciple. I see very little of my teaching in him. This dyarchy won't work. As for his strange plea for rousing the masses of India out of their “pathetic content” by reforms for which they do not ask, and which they cannot work, it's a most unwise remark. My reforms were quite enough for a generation at least.”
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to John Hartman Morgan on the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms (21 January 1921), quoted in J. H. Morgan, John, Viscount Morley: An Appreciation and Some Reminiscences (1924), p. 21
“Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today … The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.”
William Osler (1849–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The intrinsic value of woman consists essentially in exceptional receptivity for God's work in the soul, and this value comes to unalloyed development if we abandon ourselves confidently and unresistingly to this work.”
Edith Stein (1891–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, a director is more important than a big banner. A great director can do wonders. Of course, banners do matter because, ultimately, after all the hard work you put it, the film must release. This will happen only if you work with a good banner or a producer who markets your film well, gives the director whatever he wants, and releases the film.”
Rani Mukerji (born 1978) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: {{cite web |title= rediff.com|work= Fame|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/jun/12rani.htm
“The Tale of Genji in particular is the highest pinnacle of Japanese literature. Even down to our day there has not been a piece of fiction to compare with it. That such a modern work should have been written in the eleventh century is a miracle, and as a miracle the work is widely known abroad.”
Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People from all sectors of society, including business, government and community must all work together to reduce poverty at its source, by ensuring that all have access to fairly paid work, to decent public services, and to income support in times of need.”
Andrew Hutchison (born 1938) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Globe and Mail, March 29, 2006.
“If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the British and Foreign Bible Society (2 May 1928); published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), pp. 92 - 93
“I treat the business like a business because I have a business mind. I really enjoy my work and my scenes and I think that's part of the reason why I haven't gotten burned out. I've been able to pick and choose to a great extent and that helps. Since I do have a nursing career to fall back on, I am not really forced to be in the business. I stay because I truly enjoy the work.”
Tera Patrick (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a saying that great genius matures late. If something is not brought to fruition over a period of twenty to thirty years, it will not be of great merit. When a retainer is of a mind to do his work hurriedly, he will intrude upon the work of others and will be said to be young but able. He will become over-enthusiastic and will be considered rather rude.”
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719) said by 1719 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The overall system of a sizeable community struggling to survive in a crowded world may be either socialism or privatism. Either system may work, more or less. But, except in non-critical areas of distribution, commonism cannot possibly work for very long.”
Garrett Hardin (1915–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work.”
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: to Werner Drewes, 10 April 1933; as quoted in 'Klee & Kandinsky', 2015 exhibition text, Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Munich, 2015-2016
“The work of managing a natural environment is inescapably a work of local knowledge.”
Kevin Kelly (editor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like to work with kids. I'd like to work with kids all the time, if I live long enough.”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Aches and Pains and Three Batting Titles" by Myron Cope, in Sports Illustrated (March 7, 1966), p. 40
“We are on the field doing what we love to do. They have to work in the mill or other places eight hours a day, and work much harder than us and they pay their way in.”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Explaining to reporters why it's the players who should pay the fans, and not vice versa; at post-game press conference on Roberto Clemente Day, as quoted in "Roberto Clemente's a Man of 2 Lives ... and 2 Loves" by the …
“Home is where I work and I work everywhere.”
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bloated, one [=Kirchner himself] staggers off to work, where all work is in vain and the onslaught of mediocrity flattens everything. Like the cocottes that I painted, that is how one is now. Wiped out, next time gone.”
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Kirchner in a letter to Gustav Schiefler, March 28, 1919, in Dube-Heynig, Kirchner: Graphik, p. 49; as cited in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; publ…
“There is an intellectual guardianship over the world, it is man.. .This is the last judgement, before them you stand.. .They help you when you work. You can thank them only through work. When you want to die, they sometimes appear to you. When you are completely empty and completely open, you belong to them. [after his mental recovery]”
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quote from 'A Painter's Credo' c. 1919; from his Davoser Tagebuch; from Wikipedia: Kirchner
“I mean, to see somebody else when they put so much work into whatever they do... that inspires me. My dad, he does that very much so. An actor that I really look up to is Johnny Depp. The amount of work that he puts into his stuff, he is such an amazing actor I think!”
Corbin Bleu (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When will the church do her appointed work? She is represented as an angel of light, flying through heaven with the everlasting gospel to be proclaimed to the world. This represents the speed and directness with which the church is to prosecute her work.”
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Medical Ministry (1932), p. 131
“God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.”
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Medical Ministry (1932), p. 133
“You ever hear this expression? The worst day of fishing is better than the best day at work. Uh, I'll call BS. I've watched the Deadliest Catch on Discovery. I've never once been at work, capsized in 40-degree water, watched all my co-workers die, and be like, "Hey, at least we're fucking fishin'.”
Daniel Tosh (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.”
Ronnie Coleman (born 1964) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Herald Sun staff (October 13, 2006) "A good life, naturally", Herald Sun, p. 017.
“Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.”
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.”
Lucian Freud (1922–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I go anywhere in the world they tell me to go, any time they tell me to, to fight anybody they want me to fight. I move my family anywhere they tell me to move to, on a day's notice, and I live in whatever quarters they assign me. I work whenever they tell me to work... and I like it.”
Jim Webb (born 1946) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in the October 2006 publication of Field Manual 6-22 (FM-22-100): Army Leadership by Headquarters, Department of the Army, p. 4-5
“In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.”
José Rizal (1861–1896) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Fr. Pastells (11 November 1892)
“There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.”
Eugene J. Martin (1938–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Direct Art Magazine, "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin", Fall-Winter 2006,Vol. 13, p. 86, and [http://afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=3883
“Possibly I can explain my own procedure more easily. When I begin a sculpture I'm not always sure how it is going to end. In a way it has a relationship to the work before, it is in continuity with the previous work — it often holds a promise or a gesture toward the one to follow.”
David Smith (1906–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will not change an error if it feels right, for the error is more human than perfection. I do not seek answers. I haven't named this work nor thought where it would go. I haven't thought what it is for, except that it is made to be seen. I've made it because it comes closer to saying who I am than any other method I can use. This work is my identity.”
David Smith (1906–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I work obstinately, and once in a while I catch a glimpse of the Promised Land. Am I to be like the great leader of the Hebrews, or will I really attain unto it?. .I have a large studio in the country. I can work better there than in the city. I have made some progress. Oh, why so late and so painful? Must art indeed be a priesthood, demanding that the faithful be bound to it body and soul?”
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Cézanne's letter to Vollard - Aix, 9 January, 1903; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 103
“I still work with difficulty, but I seem to get along. That is the important thing to me. Sensations form the foundation of my work, and they are imperishable, I think. Moreover, I am getting rid of that devil who, as you know, used to stand behind me and forced me at will to 'imitate'; he's not even dangerous any more. [one week later Cezanne died]”
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in Cezanne's last letter to his son Paul, Aix, 15 October 1906; as quoted in Cézanne, Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 112
“We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.”
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Banner, Dec. 4, 1970, p. 2.
“After thirty years of looking at new work in galleries and even newer work in studios, I am very familiar with the experience of being completely at a loss when confronting a new idea or image.”
Nicholas Serota (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can’t work with computers but I work with someone who can. We talk about what the subjects will be and then I get a load of images about Liverpool. We then scan them and put them on a disk and then we manipulate them on the computer. I am treating them as posters. They are prints but I want them to look like posters.”
Peter Blake (born 1932) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Colin Serjent, "Blake's 08, Nerve, Autumn 2006
“We cannot ask ourselves whether ‘woman’ is superior or inferior to ‘man’ any more than we can ask ourselves whether water is superior or inferior to fire. There can be no doubt that a woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.”
Julius Evola (1898–1974) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex (1958)
“I killed my dinner with karate kicked him in the face,taste the body, shallow work is the work that I do.”
Joanna Newsom (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source