Whatever Works Quotes

• You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Moving, Light, Keep Moving

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.197, A&C Black

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• Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

  Martha Beck

  Crazy, Self, Risk

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• Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

  Zakk Wylde

  Life, Thinking, Bridges

  FaceBook post by Zakk Wylde from Mar 24, 2012

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• Well, you know, whatever works works. If, you know, if laying your hands on someone and giving them healing makes them feel better, what does it hurt? It's a good thing.

  Rosemary Altea

  Hurt, Healing, Feel Better

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• Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Motivational, Work, Views

  Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata, December 7, 1935.

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• I like to express myself creatively and it doesn't matter the medium. Whatever medium I choose at that moment, whatever works the best.

  Joshua Radin

  Matter, Moments, That Moment

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

  William P. Young

  Running, Wall, Pain

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• If men or women don't feel [the way I do], then don't live your life that way. Whatever works for your relationship. It's not just sex. I feel like that about dinner, about taking care of who you're with.

  Chris Brown

  Sex, Men, Live Your Life

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

  Samantha Shannon

  Father, Simple, Usual

  Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.2, A&C Black

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  As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, Order, Smoking

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.29, Penguin

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• I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.

  Rick Riordan

  Morning, Class, Magic

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• No matter where you are - whether you just won the lottery, or met the person of your dreams, or you're on stage and people are being supportive - whatever it is, you're still you. And whatever work you've done to be comfortable with yourself, you know, you're not really going to advance beyond that point unless you put in that work. There's no magic fix.

  Michelle Chamuel

  Dream, People, Magic

  Interview with Robin Young, nhpr.org.

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• Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get.

  Matthew McGrory

  Mean, Hmm, I Can

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• Whatever work we do, our mind should be centered on God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mind, Should

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2013

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• The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.

  Clay Shirky

  Attention, Today, Needs

  "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable" by Clay Shirky, www.shirky.com. March 13, 2009.

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• My style has evolved because I was one of the guys that would "geek chic" it every now and then. Now I'm just more into whatever works for me. I think that's just age.

  Lil Wayne

  Thinking, Guy, Style

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.

  Rachael Harris

  Thinking, People, Exposed

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

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• What is the best advice, business or otherwise, you've had and from whom?
  The best advice I've received came many years ago from my father.  He told me that you should love whatever work you do, you should try to find something you truly enjoy.  And I've been lucky through the years that the work I've been involved with has been challenging and for the most part, fun.

  Paul Allen

  Fun, Father, Years

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• I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Political, Favors

  Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.

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• The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.

  Terry Gilliam

  Ideas, Technique, Stories

  "Exclusive: Laika chasing Terry Gilliam for animated film" by Ryan Lambie, www.denofgeek.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it - you know, get excited about it - and second, that you have fun with it. That's important. Otherwise, you see, your work becomes nothing but an idle chore. Then, you hate the life you live.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Fun, Hate, Passion

  Australian ABC Television show "Why Is It So?", (episode 1), 1963.

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• I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.

  Kobe Bryant

  Winning, Games, Winner

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• Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Novelists, Fiction

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• The thing about running is, if I run in the morning before work, I feel like I'm ahead of the day. Whatever work I've done in terms of preparation or research or thinking about the scene or the character, it all kind of crystallizes in that moment in the morning. And sometimes I have the best ideas then.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Running, Morning, Character

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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