Initiative Work Quotes

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be. ~ Henry Latham Doherty

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. ~ Frank Zappa

I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to stop work in the middle of a sentence. Then you know exactly how to continue the day after. ~ Henning Mankell

The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. "What's better for us?" Barack called to the people gathered in the room. "Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be? ~ Michelle Obama

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak. ~ Grace Jones

But not all Gaza residents were committed to the war. A reporter asked one of the Arabs what he most wanted. He was a taxi driver, father of ten. All he wanted was 'to eat and to work.' What did he think of Nasser? 'Nasser is good, Israel is good, America is good, Britain is good, Canada is good, India is good, Anything is good. ~ Robert John Donovan

If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription, who has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer - even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab-American or Mexican-American family being rounded up by John Ashcroft without benefit of an attorney or due process, I know that that threatens my civil liberties. And I don't have to be a woman to be concerned that the Supreme Court is trying to take away a woman's right, because I know that my rights are next. It is that fundamental belief - I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper - that makes this country work. ~ Barack Obama

There must be something terribly wrong with me that I'm unable to find joy in the world of work." He always wrote. And of course all his friends were forever saying to him "What's wrong with you that you can't get this wonderful program?" Perhaps you understand for the first time now that my role here is to bring you this tremendous news, that there's nothing wrong here with YOU. You are not what's wrong. ~ Daniel Quinn

One thing I was realizing from seeing Rob was that, if you don't talk about your past, and you work in a bookshop, then your topics of conversation are basically 1. Books I've read and liked and why. 2. Books I've read and not liked and why. 3. Books I want to read, but haven't yet, and why. 4. Books I have decided not to read and why. ~ Stephanie Butland

It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time ... This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing. ~ Richard L. Evans

I never wear makeup when I'm not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I've grown to really love the way I look without it. ~ Leighton Meester

Sexual harassment at work ... is it a problem for the self-employed? ~ Victoria Wood

There's no such thing as too far. If it works it's funny, if it doesn't work it's too far, it's stupid. Really there's no such thing as "too far." You're joining the politically correct when you use words like "too far." You don't want to join the army of politically correct. ~ Mel Brooks

If life can be a work of art, then what are the works of art? ~ David Berkowitz Chicago

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers. ~ Amy Adams

Perhaps it had something to do with the case becoming too neat, all the evidence suddenly lining up and cooperating with their theory. Or maybe his doubts were based on something as unreliable as "intuition," though Carlson had never been a big fan of that particular aspect of investigative work. Intuition was often a way of cutting corners, a nifty technique of replacing hard evidence and facts with something far more elusive and capricious. The worst investigators Carlson knew relied on so-called intuition. He ~ Harlan Coben

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park. ~ Mickey Rourke

Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising. ~ Paul W. S. Anderson

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be. ~ Merle Haggard

If you were a chief, you had to grab at a decision. ~ William Golding

Some people say, "I only want to do God's work." How do you know what God's work is?? ~ Art Hochberg

And so, God, in no hurry whatsoever, painstakingly chips away, removing everything that is not part of the image of Christ. He takes the initiative to interrupt our lives for the higher cost of developing us into spiritually mature believers. ~ A.W. Tozer

He's here and real and beautiful and I made him beautiful. And this is why Solo would destroy my mother? Is this boy, this man, is his existence really some kind of a crime?
In what mad, unholy universe could this work of art - my work of art - be a crime? ~ Michael Grant

Sometimes you've got to make your work and workouts co-exist. ~ Jillian Michaels

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment. ~ John Fowles

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing. ~ Matthew Henson

The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord's work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them. ~ Francis A. Schaeffer

I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day. ~ Bill Shorten

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way. ~ Jimmy Rollins

It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold on to my sanity after all I'd seen and been through, body and soul, in too loud a solitude, and slowly I came to the realization that my work was hurtling me headlong into an infinite field of omnipotence. ~ Bohumil Hrabal

... there was only one rule. Work hard and be nice, and everything would go just fine. That should be the rule for life, too, Emily thought. But, of course, that wasn't how things went. ~ Lisa Unger

When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing. ~ Pauly Shore

Animal rights people get upset over things like whaling and baby seal clubbing, but what seems particularly cruel is humans stealing honey from bees. Bees work their tails off all day, then we swipe it and say, 'Sorry guys, we like to put this stuff in our tea. ~ John Scheck

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything. ~ Maureen Johnson

I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid. ~ Gene Simmons

So we know she's safe and taken care of?" Daniel asked, and she nodded. "Good. Then why don't we do something that you want to do?"
"Like what?"
"I don't know. What do you like to do?"
"Um ... " Her stomach rumbled, since crying always made her hungry. "I like eating breakfast."
"That's so weird." Daniel grinned. "Because I like making French toast."
"That works out, doesn't it? ~ Amanda Hocking

I mean, it's not the biggest thing to pilot it since it does most of the work on its own, but still. It's a big flying egg, what's not fun about that? ~ Pittacus Lore