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  • I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Work Quotes , Doe Quotes
  • The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Work Quotes , Home Quotes
  • As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Work Quotes , Want Quotes
  • I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Meaningful Quotes , Work Quotes
  • I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , Work Quotes