Working It Quotes - Page 31

• I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Passion, Player

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• I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

  Helen Suzman

  Thinking, America, Impact

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• The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.

  Cory Doctorow

  Security Systems, Important, Failing

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.127, Macmillan

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• The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of today, were all emanations of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends.

  Henry Adams

  Play, Hymns, Yesterday

  Henry Adams (2014). “Esther”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.

  Roderick Nash

  Exercise, Men, Perfect

  Roderick Nash (2001). “Wilderness and the American Mind”, p.47, Yale University Press

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• Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

  Ihab Hassan

  Integrity, Silence, Excellence

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• Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.

  Brandon Stanton

  Perfect, Waiting

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• You aren't always going to make stuff that everybody does. The sooner that you just realize that and accept that, the better. At best, hopefully, you will like it, every time, and that might not even happen. It's the nature of your work. It's just what comes with it. So, it makes it easier to deal with anybody criticizing you or anything thinking you're wonderful when you realize that you just need to focus in this one area, which is your creative fulfillment and enjoyment.

  Sharlto Copley

  Thinking, Creative, Focus

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• If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Thinking, Practice

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• I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.

  Grandma Moses

  Good Day, Yesterday, Done

  Moses, Grandma (1952). “Grandma Moses: My Life's History”, New York] : Harper

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• I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

  Claude Monet

  Years, Despair, Needs

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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

  Hans Haacke

  Wall, Museums, Jacuzzi

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• The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

  Jane Smiley

  Views, Talking, America

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• What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.

  Criss Jami

  Stress, Hard Work, Energy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.119, Criss Jami

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• I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.

  Alexander McQueen

  War, Sadness, Avid

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• The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.

  Garry Winogrand

  Mean, Intelligent, Attention

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• I don’t have a problem with recognition ... It’s very, very rarely about who I am, it’s always, ‘I love your work.’ ... It’s always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, ‘Oh, you’re a famous personality’.

  C. C. H. Pounder

  Love You, Thinking, Who I Am

  "CCH Pounder On Going From TV Victim To Law-Enforcer With ‘The Shield’ & More For ‘Isn’t That ...?’". Interview with Chris Harnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2013.

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• The land belongs to the people who work it.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Land, People

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• The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Hands, Land

  "Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy". Book by John Stolle-McAllister, 2005.

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• You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.

  Chris Hardwick

  Quality, Internet

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• Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

  Scott Cohen

  Issues, Creative, Selling

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• I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

  Albert Gubay

  School, Age, Seven Days

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• 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

  Writing, Anxiety, Stories

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• There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hate, Two, Giving

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• 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

  Men, Demand, Made

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.16

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