Working It famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
-- Albert Ellis -
Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.
-- AnnaSophia Robb -
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.
-- Antony Starr -
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
-- Arnold Bennett -
When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.
-- Ben Bova -
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 -
The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.
-- Brian Sutton-Smith -
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 -
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 -
It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.
-- Chris Hardwick -
If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
-- Corita Kent -
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
-- Cory Doctorow -
I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
-- David Fincher -
I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.
-- Devon Sawa -
I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.
-- Don Watson -
The land belongs to those who work it with their own hands.
-- Emiliano Zapata -
The land belongs to the people who work it,
-- Emiliano Zapata -
If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.
-- Eric Schmidt -
I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
-- F. Murray Abraham -
You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
-- Gary Cole -
After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.
-- George Nakashima -
I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
-- Hank Azaria -
When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.
-- Helmut Jahn -
I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
-- Imogen Heap -
I find the light and work it, work it, work it.
-- Janice Dickinson -
It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
-- Janis Joplin -
Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.
-- Joan Didion -
I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.
-- John C. Reilly -
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
-- Jonathan Ive -
When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.
-- Josh Radnor -
It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.
-- Julianna Margulies -
I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.
-- Kiki Smith -
Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.
-- Lynn Anderson -
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 -
If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
-- Mercedes Lackey -
Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.
-- Nora Roberts -
I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
-- Paul McCartney -
I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.
-- R. K. Milholland -
Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
-- Robert Fulghum -
If you want to kill time, try working it to death.
-- Sam Levenson -
Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
-- Tina Fey -
The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.
-- Tom DeMarco -
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
-- W. E. B. Du Bois -
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
-- Warren Buffett -
Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
-- Wil Haygood -
When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.
-- Zach Klein -
When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.
-- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa -
Really, voice-over IS great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.
-- Diedrich Bader -
Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
-- Gia Coppola -
I'm wearing pajamas, every day, at work. It's the best thing, ever!
-- Jill Flint -
If you don't love your work, it's hard to love your life.
-- Mardy Grothe -
You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.
-- Patty Schemel -
Just to be involved in anything Disney, whether it's 'Avengers Assemble' or 'Planes' or straight-to-dvd work, it's great.
-- Roger Craig Smith -
I just like to be in the now. And kind of reporting on what it is that I see, feel and that's really reflective of the times that I'm in, we're in and I think with the latest works, it's still evident that we're going through a lot of the same things.
-- MC Lyte -
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 -
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
-- Colin Wilson -
Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.
-- Darryl Pinckney -
If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.
-- Roger Deakins -
If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.
-- Roma Downey
