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  • Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work. -- Paul Simon
  • I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work. -- Genevieve Gorder
  • I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work. -- James Caan
  • What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad. -- Jasper Johns
  • A bad workman blames his tools. -- Daphne du Maurier
  • A bad workman quarrels with his tools. -- George Herbert
  • Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work. -- William Morris Hunt
  • Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun. -- Rick Warren
  • Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on. -- Steve Scott
  • I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work. -- Aya Cash
  • We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass. -- Hal Higdon
  • Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands. -- Donald L. Hicks
  • Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work. -- H. L. Mencken
  • One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work. -- Roger Corman
  • I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear. -- Dustin Hoffman
  • If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients. -- Michael Bierut
  • The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work. -- Martin Luther
  • Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain. -- Plato
  • Honestly, I have yet to encounter a really bad working experience. Sets are really my favorite places to be because of the many varied and interesting people you get to meet, interact and collaborate with. And I have always developed strong bonds with female costars. No cattiness yet! -- Larisa Oleynik
  • Writing is hard work and bad for the health. -- E. B. White
  • This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man. -- Edouard Manet
  • Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control. -- Rachel Weisz
  • It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work. -- Janine di Giovanni
  • When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it. -- Kelly Rowland
  • Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work. -- Clarence Darrow
  • I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs! -- A. J. Buckley
  • Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work. -- Gregory David Roberts
  • I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap. -- Sandra Bullock
  • I hate to work out. I get in a bad mood when I have to do it! -- Sofia Vergara
  • Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! -- Doris Lessing
  • I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing. -- Cliff Robertson
  • Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men. -- Tracy McMillan
  • If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously. -- Margot Robbie
  • Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany. -- Martin Landau
  • I don't want to be known for bad things in life, ever. I should be known for my work. People should love me for my work. -- Sunny Deol
  • Never, ever, work for bad people -- George Lois
  • Hawaii ain't a bad place to work. -- T.I.
  • Bad artists always admire each others work. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Nobody goes to work to do a bad job. -- W. Edwards Deming
  • Only bad writers think that their work is really good. -- Anne Enright
  • Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work. -- Shelley Winters
  • Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it. -- Bob Black
  • I love coming to work. I never have a bad day. -- Magic Johnson
  • Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work. -- George Carlin
  • Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business. -- Thomas E. Dewey
  • I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work. -- Dee Henderson
  • We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources. -- John Green
  • Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do. -- Scott Hall
  • I don't consider myself as very talented. If I don't work, I'll be very bad. -- Jean-Sebastien Giguere
  • Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day. -- Norman Mailer
  • Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way. -- John Ruskin
  • If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you. -- Geoff Ramsey
  • I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work. -- Drew Goddard
  • Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting. -- Isaiah Washington
  • Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen. -- Jack Ma
  • The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting. -- Steven Novella
  • A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. -- Tacitus
  • If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are. -- Michael Caine
  • Paperwork wouldnâ??t be so bad if it werenâ??t for all the paper. And the work. -- Darynda Jones
  • I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant! -- Maria Ressa
  • Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work. -- Paula Scher
  • That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work. -- Merv Griffin
  • My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show. -- Richard Lewis
  • Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked. -- Tom Hodgkinson
  • To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art. -- Vaclav Havel
  • In a good economy, people work hard to succeed. In a bad economy, people work hard to not fail. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! -- Doris Lessing
  • A new poll reveals that 56% of Americans believe that Wal-Mart is bad for the country, while the other 44% work there. -- Amy Poehler
  • There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day. -- Norman Mailer
  • You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out. -- John Lydon
  • A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. -- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
  • You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol. -- Alain de Botton
  • You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work. -- Sylvia Day
  • I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that. -- Ai Weiwei
  • When relationships don't work out, it doesn't mean you're a bad person, it just means you weren't meant to be together. -- Tracy McMillan
  • I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves. -- Heather Donahue
  • It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work. -- Condoleezza Rice
  • You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that. -- Shuji Nakamura
  • One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days. -- Bertrand Russell
  • If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad. -- Thom Yorke
  • It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. -- Steven Seagal
  • Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD. -- Paul Krugman
  • You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong. -- Richard Branson
  • I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well. -- Jerry Juhl
  • Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance. -- Prentice Mulford
  • There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it. -- Danielle Steel
  • I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly. -- Cary Fukunaga
  • Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing. -- Margaret Cho
  • They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing. -- Tom Waits
  • When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds. -- Elizabeth Hurley
  • If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice. -- Salma Hayek
  • Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission Â? that's not bad politics, that's robbery. -- Paul Newman
  • I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'. -- Laurence Fishburne
  • Sometimes we're gonna have our bad days, but we must continue to work to be great. Keep smiling. It looks beautiful on you!! -- Demi Lovato
  • The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work. -- Democritus
  • Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself. -- Adriana Lima
  • Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones? -- Will Rogers
  • I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming. -- Sandra Bernhard
  • Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing. -- Scott Adams
  • Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back. -- Rupert Everett
  • Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point. -- Seth Godin
  • Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice. -- Julie Halston
  • The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him. -- Bill Vaughan
  • I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. -- Norman Mailer
  • I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it. -- Marcus Giles
  • I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me. -- Nadine Labaki
  • In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home. -- Jennifer Crusie
  • Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad? -- Frank Gehry
  • I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars. -- Park Chan-wook
  • Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person. -- Jennifer Lynch
  • It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction. -- David Fincher
  • The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors. -- Barry Ritholtz
  • Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? -- George Bernard Shaw
  • It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get there. -- Lauren Conrad
  • You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that's your bad luck. -- Michael Frayn
  • I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment. -- Tim Roth
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