Working It Quotes

We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That's how art works. It's never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It's the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We've got to be patient enough to wait for them. ~ Pat Conroy

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries. ~ Toni Collette

The people in Miami are so different from anywhere else I've been in America. They're so down to earth, really friendly, and quite self-effacing, with a good sense of humor. I'm not saying other parts of America don't have a sense of humor, but Miami maybe has to have a really good sense of humor for lots of different reasons, and it works. It works for me. ~ Tracey Emin

The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something. ~ Michael Pena

For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. ~ Andy Goldsworthy

They are the key components of our civilization. I want to show that inside these political, economic, legal and social black boxes are highly complex sets of interlocking institutions. Like the circuit boards inside your computer or your smartphone, it is these institutions that make the gadget work. And if it stops working, it is probably because of a defect in the institutional wiring. You cannot understand what is wrong just by looking at the shiny casing. You need to look inside. ~ Niall Ferguson

I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny. ~ Karen Walker

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out. ~ Iris Dement

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens. ~ R. K. Milholland

When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying. ~ Zach Klein

Ben told me when I was in middle school that girls loved boys who liked to dance. I can't lie. I totally started dancing at the dances to get girls."
… "It seems to work for you"
He took her hand and kissed it…
"Does it? 'Cause I'm working it, beautiful Ella, I'm working it. ~ Lauren Dane

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny. ~ George McGovern

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising. ~ Saul Perlmutter

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking. ~ Prince William

In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal. ~ Anton Chekhov

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is. ~ Samantha Bee

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out. ~ Henry Ford

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor. ~ Clarence Day

It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy. ~ Tao Lin

Yes, she might have managed to lift the portcullis - with concentration, an unprecedented bout of luck, and the absence of a hangover. Oh, and if she were in mortal danger.
Unfortunately, her power was adrenaline-based, making it as infinite as it was uncontrollable.
"You think I use magick like mine to open a tomb?" Mari asked in a scoffing tone. Mistress of bluffing, working it here. ~ Kresley Cole

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story ~ Jonathan Gottschall

I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure. ~ Harrison Ford

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege. ~ Christian Louboutin

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies. ~ Kristen Stewart

Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I
want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen. ~ Heath Ledger

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done. ~ Alan Arkin

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene. ~ Marty Nemko

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it ~ Hesiod

A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity. ~ Rebecca West

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are. ~ Paul J. McAuley

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film. ~ Ralph Fiennes

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things. ~ Corita Kent

Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write, or was compelled to write, that finally matters. And certainly Mishima's carefully premeditated death is part of his work. ~ Yukio Mishima

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. ~ Terry Pratchett

And sometimes being in love is not enough to make it work. ~ Dominic Riccitello

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out. ~ David Fincher

9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer. ~ Lily Tomlin

I still can't help but love Sienna, though, I adore her. looking at her still makes me melt somewhere deep in my soul. Her presence lifts me up more than anyone else I know. Thinking about her fills me with happiness. What we have is unique. But I have accepted that she will never be mine, so I have to just love her from a distance and move on. It's working. It really is. I am finally achieving peace. ~ Jessica Thompson

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight ... ~ Marianne Williamson

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing. ~ Carine Roitfeld

More often than not when we do not like our work, it's not necessarily because of the work itself. But more often because of the people we work with and more importantly because of the lack of leadership. It is amazing how inspired and motivated we can be when we like the people and when we feel like we show up to work because our leaders care about our wellbeing. It is kind of incredible actually. ~ Simon Sinek

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a ... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man. ~ Noel Gallagher

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense. ~ Barack Obama

Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows. ~ Marlon Wayans

It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality. ~ Lisa Yuskavage

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest. ~ Donald Trump

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. ~ Michelle Trachtenberg

It occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over. ~ Haruki Murakami

I don't think there's any single finished point for a work. It's done when something's happening with the work that feels like a balanced, coherent disharmony. That's one way to say it. And where if I keep working on it, to discover and struggle with new problems, I'll obliterate the ones I was working on. I could keep working on it, but it'd become something different. And I value what's here, at the moment. ~ Jessica Stockholder

I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.] ~ Horace

Work? It's just serious play. ~ Saul

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it. ~ Mother Teresa

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good. ~ Saoirse Ronan

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out. ~ Rainbow Rowell

The new Galliano will be even bigger and better ... I love working, it's my therapy. I can draw until four in the morning every night and not feel tired ... I've come face to face with my demons, medicine and alcohol. I have rebuilt myself again. ~ John Galliano

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing. ~ Will Self

Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work. ~ George Arthur Buttrick

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that reading is a pleasureful experience, not a painful or boring one. ~ Jim Trelease

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy. ~ Ronald Reagan

If I'm wearing jeans all day at work, it's [hard] to slip into a dress and make yourself feel like you were born in it. That sort of thing can really be the difference between a good look and a great look. You can have a great dress, but when you put it on and you feel like it's embodying who you are that day, that's not just fashion, that's style! ~ Debby Ryan

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi. ~ Hans Haacke

Most of the time when I'm in Australia I'm not really working, it seems. I'm just at home, getting on with renovating my house or writing music or whatever. So I get back to doing all the stuff that I naturally do. Whereas if I'm away working, that's all there is to do, is to concentrate on the work. ~ Guy Pearce

Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for. ~ John Newman

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do. ~ Ronnie Dunn

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise. ~ Claire Danes

If you love the work, it will love you back. ~ Natalie Goldberg

Every part of the brain plays a crucial role in the construction of something magnificent which we call "mind". But if we observe closely, the mind doesn't exactly exist as one distinct process or entity or system. It's rather an illusion. We can understand this better if we see the mind as a nation. Think of the nation you live in. Is there really any such thing as a "nation"! A nation is simply the collection of activities of a group of people inside an imaginary border. Likewise, mind is the collection of activities of a group of neurons inside the skull. And just like in a nation, when a few neurons malfunction, others can slowly learn to take their place. But when an entire group of neurons in a specific brain region malfunctions, it can impede in the proper functioning of the mind, just like when a huge number of people in an entire state or district stop working, it can affect the functioning of the entire nation. ~ Abhijit Naskar

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album. ~ Justin Guarini

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative. ~ Roma Downey

You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately. ~ Rob Zombie

In business, when things aren't working it's time to mix it up. ~ Donald Trump

You know that the formula is askew when even if the formula is working, it's not; when even if everything's going right, something is wrong. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

How our government works ... it doesn't. ~ Lewis Black

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of Englishit is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart. ~ Spiro T. Agnew

Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I think immigration system that we have is terrible for the United States of America. We have a legal immigration system that does not work. It does not reflect the economic needs of this country in the 21st century. It needs to be modernized. ~ Marco Rubio

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

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless. ~ Rob Mariano

Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of this honor. It's a wonderful ceremony that Eleanor Traylor chair of English at Howard University organizes for writers. Writers from around the country came to pay tribute to my work. It was very flattering. ~ Ishmael Reed

Nothing more then nothing can be said.
We make our lives by what we love.
Being American, having been trained to be sentimental, I fought for noises … when the war came along, I decided to use only quiet sounds. There seemed to me to be no truth, no good, in anything big.
Somebody asked Debussy how he wrote music. He said: "I take all the tones there are, leave out he one's I don't want, and use all the others". Satie said: "When I was young, people told me; you'll see when you're fifty years old. Now I'm fifty. I've seen nothing".
Slowly as the talk goes on, we are getting nowhere – and that is a pleasure.
It is not irritating to be where one is, it is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
If anybody is sleepy, let him go to sleep.
All I know about method is that when I'm not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I'm working, it is quit clear I know nothing. ~ John Cage

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said.
We're not opposites.'
I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave. ~ James Salter

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. ~ Harold Ramis

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future. ~ Richard Rohr

It's much more important to write than to be written about. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind. ~ Ben Horowitz

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began. ~ Rirkrit Tiravanija

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it. ~ Marcia Cross

The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but it has to be sufficiently accurate that it will help in both the learning of the operation and also dealing with novel situations. ~ Donald A. Norman

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. ~ Donald Miller

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I
ever been, an axe murderer."
"I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised. ~ Nora Roberts

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it. ~ Chanel Iman

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey! ~ Michelle Rodriguez

It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires. ~ Ruth Ozeki

Lucas lifted his head to look around and saw that dozens of people were dead or wounded; and that cops were flowing in from everywhere, that fifteen civilians were filming the chaos with their iPhones, that two TV crews were already working it, and that people everywhere were screaming in pain . . . He and Bowden knelt next to Jubek and Jubek's eyes were open and he said, "Hurt," and Lucas could hear more clearly now and said, "Hang on," and Jubek almost laughed and said, "I'm trying, dumbshit. Get me something . . . ~ John Sandford

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television. ~ Mackenzie Astin

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in. ~ Joanna Lumley