Working It Quotes

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

  Halford Luccock

  Life, Teamwork, Science

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• I think theres 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

  Thinking, People, Said

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• That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

  Celia Green

  Attitude, Work, May

  "The Decline and Fall of Science". Book by Celia Green, 1976.

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• How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Wish, Essentials, Dignity

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 24, 2014.

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• What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

  John Huston

  Magic, Trying, Film

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• We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.

  Jack Welch

  Running, Business, Lying

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• My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive.

  Johannes Heesters

  Life, Giving, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.

  Dylan Moran

  Believe, Thinking, Obvious Things

  "Comedian Dylan Moran: 'What am I looking forward to? Incontinence and memory loss'". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2009.

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• Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

  Rick Riordan

  Hard Work, Love Is, Yield

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• New Rule: You're never going to pick up women at a coffee shop pretending to be working on your laptop. You don't look like you're sensitive, you look like you're homeless.The last guy to pick up a chick with an Apple was Adam. And when you sit across from another dateless loser with a laptop, it still doesn't look like you're working--it looks like you're playing Battleship.

  Bill Maher

  Coffee, Apples, Guy

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.65, Penguin

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• it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hate, Done, Forget

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• You'd been petting a stuffed dog?' she said 'A dead one?' 'It was a really well stuffed dog' I clarified. 'I have seen some bad taxidermy. This was top-notch work. It would have fooled anyone.

  Maureen Johnson

  Dog, Taxidermy, Said

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• You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

  Kenneth Oppel

  Blessed, Medicine, Failing

  Kenneth Oppel (2012). “This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind altogether. She couldn't charm her way out from under Macon's watch. She would have to resort to older magic, stronger magic, the kind that had worked best on Macon from the time she first moved to Ravenwood. Plain old love.

  Kami Garcia

  Moving, Hair, Magic

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• Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?" "Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wine, Thinking, Trying

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• The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

  Mark Twain

  4th Of July, Loss, Years

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.263, Xist Publishing

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• Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Actors, Elements, Casting

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• It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

  Gavin Bryars

  Mistake, Trying, New Work

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• Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

  George Santayana

  Prayer, Effort, Range

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.132, 谷月社

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• 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

  Prayer, Spring, Secret

  George Arthur Buttrick (1934). “The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith”

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• Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Journey, Giving, Soul

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, Touchstone

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• I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

  Ray Dalio

  Machines, Causes, Just Saying

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

  Dakota Fanning

  Fun, Thinking, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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