Working It Quotes - Page 24

• The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

  Colleen Atwood

  Moving, Reality, People

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• Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

  Charles Kettering

  Ideas, Enough, Strikes

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• I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Women, Believe, Hard Work

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• Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.

  Alec Guinness

  Opportunity, Theatre, Actors

  Alec Guinness (1997). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Viking Press

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• People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

  Simon McBurney

  Math, People, Brain

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• I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Views, People

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• The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Wisdom, Art, Prayer

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• Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It's simple - we don't do anything. I think the trouble with a lot of people is that they work too hard at staying married. They make a business out of it. When you work too hard at a business you get tired; and when you get tired you get grouchy; and when you get grouchy you start fighting; and when you start fighting you're out of business.

  George Burns

  Wisdom, Tired, Fighting

  George Burns (1980). “Living It Up”, Berkley

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• Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’

  Joanna Macy

  Hero, Heart, Adventure

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• That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

  Tim Tharp

  Games, Training, Giants

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.82, Scholastic UK

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• The man, the art, the work--it is all one.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Art, Men, He Man

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• 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

  Understanding, World, Littles

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• Network Spinal Analysis represents the epitome of body work; it is at the leading of body/mind/spirit integration. This work will transform the planet.

  Candace Pert

  Mind, Analysis, Body Work

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• We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.

  Douglas Crockford

  Long, People, Design

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.99, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

  Tom Freston

  Careers, Interesting, Luck

  Tom Freston’s Commencement Address at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, May 27, 2009.

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• The consciousness and life force do what they want...
  one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly
  and the next minute they send a whole town crushing with tremendous force...
  who can work it out?

  Mooji

  Crush, Butterfly, Wings

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• When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

  Raekwon

  Wall, People, Way

  "Raekwon Needed To Tease F.I.L.A. Album With Lost Jewelry" by Maurice Bobb, Sway Calloway, www.mtv.com. February 23, 2013.

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• Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

  Frank Bettger

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Trying

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one has to be changed to be saved, that's salvation by works. It is also salvation by the flesh. The truth is, one is cleansed from the sins of the flesh just as he is saved; by yielding to the Holy Spirit and letting Him do His work.

  Jack Hyles

  Christian, Divine Order, Flesh

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• I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think it's Canadian but that may be a coincidence. I've been through all sorts, the original jam man was great but clicked on the loop if you didn't get it just right, something I am familiar with. As I said in another answer I have an RC50 but haven't fired it up yet. On paper it looks great.

  Robin Guthrie

  Men, Thinking, Answers

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• I always worked as an individual artist even when Group Material asked me to join the group. There are certain things that I can do by myself that I would never be able to do with Group Material. First of all, they are a totally democratic entity and although you learn a lot from it, and it's very moving, it's very exacting, everything has to be by consensus, which is the beauty of it, but it is much more work. It's worth it 100%. But as an individual artist there are certain things that I want to bring out and express, and the collaborative practice is not conducive to that.

  Felix Gonzalez-Torres

  Moving, Artist, Practice

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• The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

  Meryl Streep

  Challenging Work, Funny Graduation, Challenges

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• A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship, a consecration of mind and heart to the honour of His name.

  Herman Bavinck

  Heart, Speaks Out, Names

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• Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit in the student and because it required an awakened spirit in the teachers. Spirit to spirit, genius to genius, soul to soul go the true lessons that help young people become themselves. Ultimately, each person holds the key to the story trying to be lived from within, but first someone else must help unlock the mystery of one’s life.

  Michael Meade

  Teacher, Keys, People

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• This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the greatest crew of animators, artists, and technicians I've ever been privileged to work with. I share this nomination with all of them and we all share our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press.

  Henry Selick

  Sweet, Hard Work, Artist

  "Neil Gaiman, Others React to Golden Globe Animation Noms" by Steve Fritz, www.newsarama.com. December 15, 2009.

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