Working It Quotes - Page 35

• Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Life, Spiritual, Honesty

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• Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Agendas, World

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• Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teacher, Teaching, You Like It

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Work, Should

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• One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

  Seth Godin

  Way, Refuse, One Way

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• Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Successful, Validation, Common Sense

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• While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener.

  Timothy Keller

  Lying, Communication, Responsibility

  Timothy Keller (2015). “Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism”, p.11, Penguin

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• If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

  John Legend

  Want, Way, Compromise

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• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Rocks, Track

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• The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

  Brian Tracy

  Hype, Numbers, People

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• Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.

  Joyce Brothers

  Sex, Men, Two

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• The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Fool

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.135

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• I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

  Christian Marclay

  Today, Way, Chance

  "The Hours". Interview with Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Good Intentions, Intention

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.49, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.

  Steve Aoki

  Song, Resilience, Details

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• Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it doesn't even feel like work and it shouldn't. When you enjoy a job so much like I do, it's not work, it's play.

  Kelli Berglund

  Jobs, Play, Favorites Things

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• All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy.

  Drew Fuller

  Laughter, Fun, People

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• It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.

  Tracy Morgan

  Love You, People, Judging

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Way, Eating

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.

  Toni Morrison

  Family, Children, Two

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight into the creative process itself, and into Philip Roth's high calling as a great American artist. The book is, in some ways, a radical rereading of Roth's life and his work. It is impossible, by the end, not to feel a tender admiration for Roth as a novelist and indeed for Claudia Roth Pierpont as an empathetic and brilliant critic.

  Colm Toibin

  Smart, Real, Book

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• It's not work, it is more of a passion. It is so much fun and it is really makes you feel great at the end of the day. You feel like you are really after doing something good and you are after accomplishing something. Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Fun, Dad, Love You

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Letting Go, Real, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Thinking, Teach

  W.E.B. Du Bois (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the field for lack of harvesters.

  Ronald Reagan

  Law, Numbers, People

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