Working It Quotes - Page 38

• Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Faith, Goal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1228, Manonmani Publishers

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• Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Expression, Doe

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• This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.

  Mark Driscoll

  Needs, News, World

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• I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Jesus, Book

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

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• The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after we do it.

  Bruce Mau

  Answers, Study, Studios

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• I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.

  Monique Lhuillier

  Life, Kids, Home

  "The designer making Rihanna, Scarlett and Gwyneth look good". Interview with Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2012.

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• I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

  Grandma Moses

  Life, Positive, Work

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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• 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

  Music, Powerful, Pieces

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• Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Hate

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• Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Worry, Decision, Made

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• You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Jesus, Answers, May

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• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  Mae West

  Two, Four, Know How

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• 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

  Work, Cooking, Lazy

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• A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer. Think over this for a few moments until you get the idea firmly fixed in your mind.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Ideas

  William Walker Atkinson (2016). “Practicing mental influence”, p.40, William Walker Atkinson

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• When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

  Tina Fey

  Real, People, Feels

  "Oprah Talks to Tina Fey". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February 2009.

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• Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• Work? It’s just serious play.

  Saul

  Play, Serious

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

  Zach Klein

  Trying, Keep Trying

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• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, African American, Black

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

  Henry Ford

  Believe, Heart, Ideas

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• I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Nice, Taken, Grateful

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• Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Smart, Hard Work

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• I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

  Steve Jobs

  Hate, Real, Moving

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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