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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Moving, Thinking, Light

  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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• Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

  Adam Smith

  Doe, Maintenance, Violence

  Adam Smith, Laurence Dickey (1993). “Wealth of Nations (Abridged)”, p.91, Hackett Publishing

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• I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.

  Joel S. Goldsmith

  Morning, Expression, Order

  Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “The Art of Meditation”, p.54, BookBaby

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• People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, People, Different

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2004.

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• Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from their own ego to their essence, and then to connect to do whatever work in the world they are called to do, that's an evolutionary circle.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Spiritual, Heart, Essence

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

  Glenn Branca

  Writing, Thinking, Pieces

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.

  Robert Thurman

  Teacher, Helping Others, Creative

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Mar 25, 2017

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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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• Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

  Paul Auster

  Art, Book, Past

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, People, Luck

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