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“I so love the work I’ve done so far. And I’m really learning how integral community is in my life. So I hope to remain doing the caliber of work I’m doing, alongside brilliant creatives while having people around me in my personal life who I love, trust, and can grow with”
“Family. Gotta have my family involved, and I think that's kinda part of why I also love partnering with Lilly. They're just from my hometown. You know? I grew up seeing a lot of my mom's friends work there, my dad's friends, or I drive by on the street and see it. But, yeah, just having those core values, those good morals. And, again, I wanna work with people that wanna help people.”
Trevor Jackson (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I do think that there's work being done by activists, by people everyday that's beautiful, important work, that's not finished, that's really, really, really active, for a reason, because this world is really charged.”
Ayo Edebiri (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ahh, it was wonderful. He’s a director who knows what he wants, so it makes the day flow much better. As an actor, I never have to second-guess if I’m delivering what he needs because he’s super collaborative and communicative. He is the clearest visionary I’ve ever worked with, and his work ethic is crazy. He makes me want to work harder.”
Danielle Brooks (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This season, every one of the 11th Street Kids is dealing with the ups and downs of life. Everyone has something they’re having to work through, but Adebayo is holding onto the positive. She’s really leaning into hopefulness and the belief that everything is going to work out for her own good and for the good of her counterparts.”
Danielle Brooks (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even though I've been practicing a lot and I haven't been getting a lot of games, I know that I've put in the work so all I need to do is just believe that I've done enough work and I can do what I know I'm supposed to do in the games.”
Hayden Walsh Jr. (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also dreamt of being a Springbok even though in those days it was almost impossible to become one. I kept on dreaming and through hard work, persistence, I got the opportunity to play once and I had to keep my position through hard work and determination. I never really had the talent as they say, but I had potential to achieve.”
Chester Williams (1970–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the creativity of your work that gives me most delight, the fact that you don't just repeat processes that you know work well, but invent something new to respond to each new situation.”
Anne Hope (activist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One day I’m doing a death scene, the next day I’m doing the beating up, next day the tangi scene. She was heavy to carry, Beth. How I got through it was I basically worked morning, noon and night. So it was just work, sleep, work.”
“[[Manufacturing|[M]anufacture]] of here was almost an impossibility..; if... by hand-work it would be very dear, and if by machinery.., probab[ly]... too heavy and useless. ...[O]bstacles and difficulties seemed insuperable, and hope almost left me. Fortunately, work and perseverance are... great factors towards success.”
Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was more a mindset change knowing that I've put in the work even though it's not as much as it used to be when I was younger because, like I said, now it's more important for me to be fresh knowing I've done that work, not only now but for the last 15 years.”
Marizanne Kapp (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always say that you have to use the leagues and coaches as you use what you think will work for you; and things that you feel is not going to work, or won't make an impact, you just push to one side, because I feel like as an international cricketer and especially in the women's game, there's a lot of info coming in and you can't always take everything on board.”
Marizanne Kapp (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always respected him (Corbin) since we played together — class guy, great work ethic, I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to again get with a great organization and also work with an old friend.”
Sidney Lowe (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's just a solid organization, I think I'm kind of a low-keyed guy. I just want to come in and get my work done, and that's the way I see this organization — (they) just want to get in and get the work done.”
Sidney Lowe (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nowadays I find it a lot easier to leave my work at work and not bring home the pressures and frustrations which come with being a professional sportsman.”
Calvin Savage (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My plan is to meet with all the coaches in the country to convey my work philosophy. It is the way we can do a team work.”
Sébastien Migné (born 1972) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Equatorial Guinea appoint Sebastien Migne as coach, November 08 2019
“Respectfully, as someone who is very mindful of the words I speak these days, I’m not dying to work with anyone. I do believe it would be an absolute pleasure to work with Angela Bassett. Her poise, dedication, and attend to her art has always been inspiring to me. I’ve crossed paths with her a few times, and she was.”
Bre-Z (born 1987) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: INTERVIEW WITH BRE-Z: MUSIC, ACTING, AND AUTHENTICITY;By Phil Gomez on JUNE 7, 2024
“Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,—honest work, which you intend getting done.”
Thomas Carlyle (attributed) first seen 1866 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, (April 2, 1866), reported in A dictionary of quotations in prose, edited by A. L. Ward (1889).
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”
C. S. Lewis (misattributed) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Actually first said by Dr. John Trainer in 2012, as discussed on this page from William O'Flaherty, author of The Misquotable C.S. Lewis. The page also lists some of Lewis' actual quotes about children and distractions.
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
Rumi (attributed) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jan Phillips, Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (1997) p. 75
“Impossibities are possible to Him, The stubbornest is docile when His will curbs whim, The blind from birth, the leper, e’en the dead arise Whole, sound, whene’er the Omnipotent ‘Come forth!’ but cries. His smallest daily toil, a work-like pleasure still, Is to send forth three armies, bound to work His will.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Worker is hidden in the workshop, Enter the workshop and behold him face to face; Since a veil is drawn over the Worker by his work, Apart from His work you cannot see Him.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Work me Lord, work me Lord. Please don't you leave me, I feel so useless down here With no one to love Though I've looked everywhere And I can't find me anybody to love, To feel my care.”
Janis Joplin (misattributed) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Work Me, Lord", from her album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969) was written by her bandmate Nick Gravenites, whom she credits at the start of her famous performance of the song at the Woodstock Music Festiv…
“Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man can be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. The world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man, whence is he? / Too bad to be the work of a god, too good for the work of chance.”
Doris Lessing (misattributed) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 61; usually attributed to Doris Lessing in the form: "Man — who is he? Too bad…
“A. R. Rahman: "She’s a real powerhouse...Somebody played me her CD and I thought, ‘Who is this girl? She came here and knew all my work, had followed my work for ages. I said, ‘Cut the crap, this “my idol” crap. You have to teach me.”
“Patrick Wolf: "I've just fallen in love in the last couple of days with her work. She's great. I love "Bird Flu". I met her recently, and I'm a very, very big supporter of her work, and her attitude and what she stands for.”
“Lafferty's first full-length work is an event. As with everything the man writes, the wind of imagination blows strongly, with the happy difference that in a novel he can reach full gale-force, Lafferty defies categorization; his work is unlike anyone else's. This is a great galloping madman of a novel, drenched in sound and color.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harlan Ellison on Past Master (1968)
“Boscovich's ideas exerted a deep influence on the work on the next following generation of physicist ... Our esteem for the purposefulness of Boscovich's great scientific work, and the inspiration behind it, increases the more as we realize the extent to which it served to pave the way for the later developments.”
Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711–1787) said by 1787 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Niels Bohr, as quoted in Roger Boscovich The Founder of Modern Science by Roger Anderton and Dragoslav Stoiljkovich (2014).
“The poor and the middle class work for money.” “The rich have money work for them.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good”
English proverb wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everyone thinks I can’t do anything. Even when I show them that I can, they still don’t hire me. Besides, cases are so much work yet one doesn’t earn a lot. My life is too costly for me to do court work.”
Florence Ndagire wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you're not working, you might as well be dead.”
T.C. Boyle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[About loyalty to Judaism] Don't assume, Jewish intellectuals, that you are doing your duty by working... for so-called Humanity.... You are lighting a fire beneath the open sky, while your own family in your own house is freezing.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bildung, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 20ff. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, pp. 334–8.
“The trouble about working on a tabloid is that they tend to be run by bullies.”
Ian Hislop (born 1960) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Room 101, BBC (9 February 2007).
“The mighty Jove did love us. Did? He does. There is a spell of unresisted power In wonder-working weak simplicity, Because it is not fear'd.”
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reason I am a communist is because I believe in a total revolution which is going to overthrow the capitalist control of the economy, which will seize the wealth from all of the giant corporations that exploit and control the lives of all working people.”
Angela Davis (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the sanguinary struggle with capitalism, the working class cannot refrain from inflicting the last extremity of punishment upon its declared enemies. While the civil war continues, the abolition of the death penalty is impossible.”
Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am skeptical about preventing wars. I doubt if they can be prevented. There will always be wars. Judging by past experiences, working for peace now would be as ineffective as ever. It's a law of nature.”
Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946, "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007
“You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me. (Interview Magazine 2000).”
Anthony Kiedis (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like I told you, I'm not a magician," he says. "If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.”
Uri Geller (born 1946) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited by Calev Ben-David, "A Life of the Mind," The Jerusalem Report (September 8, 1994), p. 46
“All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. The rock bands are rather drab, even the good ones. You definitely don't want to look at them. But some of those R&B people are very good.”
Bryan Ferry (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As long as poets belonged to a broader class of artists and intellectuals, they centered their lives in urban bohemias, where they maintained a distrustful independence from institutions. Once poets began moving into universities, they abandoned the working-class heterogeneity of Greenwich Village and North Beach for the professional homogeneity of academia.”
Dana Gioia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.”
Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "USSR Information Bulletin" - Page 322 - World War, 1939-1945 - 1942
“They were a bloodthirsty lot, those sentimentalists who wept for the sad lot of the working classes.”
Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bohemians of the Bulletin (Sydney, 1965), 96
“Cathedral cities, market towns, ports forgotten by the sea, spas long out of fashion, all these can decay beautifully, and often their charm increases as the life ebbs out of them. Industrial towns, like steam-engines, are only even tolerable if they are in working order and puffing away.”
J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although every believing Christian understands that God guides our steps, fewer and fewer emphasize the point. A God working actively in the world makes us uneasy. We tend to like our God distant and a bit malleable, ready to bend to every new human idea. A God with a will of his own is too scary, and, besides, he might get in the way of our satisfaction of immediate desire.”
Stephen L. Carter (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.”
Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I learned from working in the fashion world that if I have a day when I feel slapped in the face, or if someone has been mean, I just have to get back up and it will be another day. I think about what I'm grateful for. I look at my kids and my husband and think, Wow, I'm a really lucky person.”
Heidi Klum (born 1973) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Self Magazine, December 2010