Work Done Quotes - Page 4

• Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

  Michael Shannon

  Character, Magic, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Thinking, Done

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.66, Vivekananda Kendra

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• I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.

  Jimmy Wales

  Reading, Google, Wikipedia

  "Jimmy Wales: The Internet's Shy Evangelist". Interview with Emily Dugan, www.independent.co.uk. October 22, 2011.

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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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• I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Girl, Football, Kids

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• The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Children, Practice

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I: "The Education of the Architect", Section 1,

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• Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

  Katori Hall

  Directors, Needs, Actors

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• I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

  Dave Eggers

  Self, Yesterday, Eight

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

  Cory Lidle

  Guy, Done, Weight

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• People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Smart, Hard Work

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• When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Long, Quality

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• What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was young, it was much more balanced toward work. When I had my children, it was much more balanced toward love and family, and I didn't get a lot of work done. So you can't ask of it to be perfectly balanced at any time, but your hope is, before you die, you've somehow had each of those spheres come to life. That's probably more important than success in any one of those spheres alone.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Children, Important, Spheres

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• Barack Obama today is directing every federal agency to make sure we evaluate candidates on the level without regard to their employment history. So if you are a rotten employee, if you don't show up on time, if you don't get any work done, that cannot be examined as whether or not it makes sense to hire you. What we're gonna do is make sure that we only hire people who have been out of work the longest, because that's fair, regardless their work history, regardless whether they're qualified, this is Obama making it equal.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Agency, People, Employment

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. That’s bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.

  Kevin Drum

  Twilight, Technology, Long

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• My favorite procrastination is to make the choice to have valuable times with human beings that I care about instead of holing myself up alone to get my work done.

  Bob Saget

  Procrastination, Choices, Done

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.

  Ricardo Semler

  Keys, Watches, Done

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• True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.

  Herman Melville

  Work, Humanity, Wicked

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

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• As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

  Steven Rattner

  Differences, Done, Interest

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• In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.

  Rudolf Clausius

  Done, May, Heat

  "On the Moving Force of Heat, and the Laws Regarding the Nature of Heat Itself Which Are Deducible Therefrom" (1851)

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• The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart.

  Anuj

  Beautiful, Heart, Mind

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• I'm always just trying to get the work done so that I can be free - like, with the sense that, like, the real me has no interest in this? I just gotta do it for my boss. But the catch is that I'm never free, I never finish the work, so I don't know who this freewheeling employee with extracurricular interests is.

  Miranda July

  Real, Boss, Trying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.

  Jim Harrison

  Destiny, Trying, Dozen

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• Work done by human beings for human beings.

  William Lethaby

  Done, Humans, Human Beings

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• It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Country, Cities, Tree

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• I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, President, Done

  "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", votesmart.org. October 20, 2003.

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