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"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

Anna Quindlen on Work

More quotes about Work

  • "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

    Confucius on Work

  • "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work

  • "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

    Thomas A. Edison on Work

  • "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

    Robert Frost on Work

  • "Nothing will work unless you do."

    Maya Angelou on Work

More quotes by Anna Quindlen

  • "The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

  • "There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever."

  • "I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."

  • "I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."

  • "The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female."

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