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Do Your Work Quotes

So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.
- Ernest Hemingway

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics?
- Brandon Sanderson

Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do your work and I shall know you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.
- Amanda Seyfried

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
- Tryon Edwards

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
- Robert Frank

You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
- Lance Henriksen

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
- Elbert Hubbard

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
- Lao Tzu

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
- Lao Tzu

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.
- Christopher Meloni

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
- Thomas Merton

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
- John Milius

There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience.
- Piper Perabo

There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.
- Ayn Rand

The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?
- Adam Rex

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.
- Kenny Rogers

School is just like having a job. You have to show up, you have to do your work, and you have to be around tons of idiots or mean people. Now that I think about it, it's worse than having a job. At least there you get paid.
- Elizabeth Scott

Consider the holiness of your hands. They are how you do your work on this earth; they are a microcosm of the hands of the Goddess, and can change the world as easily as hers can.
- Dianne Sylvan

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
- Leo Szilard

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
- Clyde Tombaugh

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.
- Denzel Washington

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.
- Deryck Whibley

You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.
- Scott Wolf

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