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Work. Finish. Publish.
Michael Faraday

Working with the Monaco ballet was sensational, I loved every minute of it.
Christina Davis

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.
Ron Wyden

I get stimulated by creative people, and by meeting talented people. I like putting things together, and seeing how they work.
Nicholas Cage

Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?
Jon Stewart

“Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims

“Every work of art is about everything.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims

“Originality in art puts charm where it wasn’t.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims

“Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims


Eli Siegel

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage.
Susan Hampshire

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer

If my tricks don't work, my looks will
Amanda Marchant

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Robert Bork

A job is something we do to get a pay cheque and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe.
Matthew Fox

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.
H S M Burns

I will always remember him for the many and various characters he portrayed. He has left behind a library of work which will entertain this nation for many years to come [on Ronnie Barker]
David Suchet

Programming definitely requires a particular mindset, and normally the problem is working out what the program has to do, rather than actually writing the program once you've worked that bit out.
Paul Graham

You shouldn't have to justify your work.
Judy Chicago

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred A Allen

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
Oscar Wilde

Kissing Orlando on Extras was really just a day's work. Orlando Schmorlando. I was blase by then.
Ashley Jensen

We will start working now. The scouting department is working for improving the team
Rafael Benitez

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation.
Kim Novak

I'm down but not out. I want to get back to work and whatever I decide to do, it'll be big.
Chris Evans

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.
Dean Stockwell

My team talk was very simple. I said: 'Let's just have an old-fashioned match, get the right result and go out for a few drinks afterwards'. It seemed to work better than all the tactical crap.
Ron Atkinson

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vincent T Lombardi

A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
David Chalmers

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
Sholom Aleichem

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
John Coltrane

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
Pope John XXIII

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Scott Adams

This is something that I cannot get over - that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
Karl Kraus

No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Ulysses S Grant

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
Roman Polanski

Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.
Michael Flatley

I'd much prefer to go to a working men's club, have a pint, play dominoes or a game of cards than go to flash parties or film premieres.
Paul Gascoigne

God works in mysterious ways. But so does the devil
Jason Merchey

I've been working hard in the studio. I postd a couple of new songs to get an idea of my new direction, they are just at a demo stage so don't be too hard on them.
Lily Allen

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!
Bela Fleck

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
Henry Miller

I don't feel the need as a serious actor to do stupid movies just to keep my face out there. Me no likey worky.
Ellen Barkin

The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
Igor Ivanov

I love fireworks!
Gisele Bundchen

I worked at a farm, in an office, and did a bit of mail. I found them all tedious.
Tim Burgess

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant
Joseph Joubert

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
Thomas Carlyle



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