#real work

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. ↗

— Russell Baker

#fit #i #never #notion #only

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. ↗

— Donald Norman

#degree #either #experience #get #graduate

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing. ↗

— Judith Rossner

#interesting #more #real #real work #takes

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#period #real #real work #rehearsal #work

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#beautiful #blue #dead #fine #hair

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

#always #being #being busy #busy #does

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#believe #committees #done #get #lot

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

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

— Jeff Goldblum

#feels #like #lovely #me #movie