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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation. -- D. H. Lawrence
For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid. -- Thom Mayne
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. -- Walter Gropius
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. -- Sue Monk Kidd
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. -- Anish Kapoor
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.' -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. -- Vaclav Havel
I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning. -- Phoebe Philo
To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it. -- Joel Edgerton
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility. -- James Balog
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. -- Jerome Bruner
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves. -- Leon Uris
Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell. -- Itay Talgam
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. -- Jonathan Miller
In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others. -- Barry Schwartz
A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care. -- Shane Leslie
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches. -- Lech Walesa
It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning. -- Paul Cullen
One of the things you'll discover... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work. -- Erwin McManus
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. -- Stephen Hawking
Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread. -- Studs Terkel
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. -- Peter Brook
Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. -- Fernando Araujo Perdomo
The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work. -- Amit Kalantri
I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work. -- Brett Dennen
I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me. -- Jim Hodges
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. -- Charles de Lint
If one's work environment isn't able to provide individuals with meaning, people will seek out one that does. -- Marc Kielburger
Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall. -- Jason Peter
Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being. -- James Hillman
You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. -- Homer
Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time. -- Tavi Gevinson
Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic? -- P. D. James
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. -- Truman Capote
The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral. -- D.T. Suzuki
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning. -- Carol Bly
Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew. -- T.A. Barron
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. -- Marcel Proust
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. -- Henri Matisse
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. -- Brian Swimme
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot. -- Richard Gere
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. -- Vaclav Havel
I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make. -- Audrey Tautou
God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18) -- Sunday Adelaja
A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word. -- Kenneth Tynan
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. -- Leonard Bernstein
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually. -- David Hockney
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves. -- Steven Pressfield
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways. -- Barbara Kruger
Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve. -- Theodora Goss
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. -- David Viscott
I wanna work harder & let myself bear the wound. even though it hurt a lot but the meaning is I can use this to help me grow up. -- Seungri
We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are -- Alan Ryan

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