Real Work Quotes

• Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hipster

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• Being busy does not always mean real work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Real, Mean, Infinite Intelligence

  Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.

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• Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

  George Halas

  Work, Office Jobs, Nfl

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• Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

  David McCullough

  Love, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 17, 2012

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• The real work of an expedition begins when you return.

  Louise Boyd

  Real, Return, Expeditions

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• The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Real, Grief, Home

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When you're really trying to make serious change, you don't want people to get caught up in emotion because change isn't emotion. Because change isn't emotion. Its real work and organization and strategy - that's just the truth of it. I mean, you pull people in with inspiration, but then you have to roll up your sleeves and you've got to make sacrifices and you have got to have structure.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Real, Hard Work

  "One-On-One With Michelle Obama". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2008.

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• In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.

  Brian Tracy

  Real, Work, Educational

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• On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

  Maya Angelou

  Real, Garden, Play

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• The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Understanding, Might

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so a picture emerges that may look quite good for a while, so airy and colourful and new. But that will only last for a day at most, at which point it starts to look cheap and fake. And then the real work begins - changing, eradicating, starting again, and so on, until it's done.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Fake

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• Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Writing, Silence

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• You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

  Alain Prost

  Fun, Real, Ferrari

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Party, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.

  Rod Taylor

  Jobs, Real, Men

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• What is your real work? Is it that which pays the bills or is it your art? I think your real work is healing. Whatever helps you become more loving in this lifetime. Whatever helps you forgive yourself, embrace yourself, meet yourself, and free yourself in this lifetime.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Inspiring, Art, Real

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• The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Art, Real, Lovely

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• You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

  Geneen Roth

  Monday, Morning, Real

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Real, Voice

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “Life of the Beloved”, Hachette UK

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• We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Real, Breathing, Community

  "What Oprah Knows For Sure About Finding Your Calling" By Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

  Wendell Berry

  Real, Inspiration, Journey

  "Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms". 1982.

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• Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing my phisical strengh, I find myself less able to explore the outer world, but better prepared to explore the inner.

  Doug Scott

  Real, Climbing, World

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• It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.

  William Kentridge

  Real, Happened

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• The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

  Cheryl Heller

  Real, Broken, Innovation

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