Working It Quotes - Page 39

• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teacher, Appreciation, Educational

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• Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Crush, Holiday, Sleep

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• Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heaven, Moments, Not Afraid

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

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• When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowardly to retreat. But when writing goes smoothly–why then one certainly should keep on working, since it would be stupid to stop. Consequently one is always writing or should be writing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Real, Stupid, Silly

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• Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Thinking, Want, Should

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• It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Disappointment, Thinking, Drawing

  Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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• Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

  Fanny Brice

  Love, Fun, Cards

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• The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

  Gabe Newell

  Technology, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Lying, Mean

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• I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Song, Couple, Journey

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

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• Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Doe, Proportion

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• When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

  Jonathan Ive

  Creativity, Ability, Exceed

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• People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hands, Class, People

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “Do It to a Finish!”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Pain, Attitude

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• I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.

  Aliko Dangote

  Believe, Hard Work, Joy

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• Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

  Joan Didion

  Literature, Information, Magical Thinking

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.44, Vintage

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• It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Spiritual, Companionship, Easier

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• When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

  Gary Sinise

  Success, Destiny, Thinking

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• It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Credit, Done

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.21, Moody Publishers

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• I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

  George Clooney

  Inspirational, Sight, Parent

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• A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Inspiration, Errors

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

  Paul McCartney

  Birthday, Time, Fighting

  Song: We Can Work It Out

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• In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

  Neil Strauss

  Life, Appreciation, Time

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.108, Canongate Books

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• No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

  John Fogerty

  Appreciation, Commitment, Hard Work

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• Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

  Donald Miller

  Pain, Book, Writing

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