Working It Quotes

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

  Halford Luccock

  Life, Teamwork, Science

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• That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

  Celia Green

  Attitude, Work, May

  "The Decline and Fall of Science". Book by Celia Green, 1976.

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• I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

  Ben Horowitz

  Thinking, People, Said

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• How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Wish, Essentials, Dignity

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 24, 2014.

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• Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.

  Roman Coppola

  Fall, Sometimes, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

  Tom Hollander

  Opportunity, People, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

  Sandra Oh

  Hard Times, Scary, Theatre

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• What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

  Virgil

  Latin, Race, Found

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• When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the field for lack of harvesters.

  Ronald Reagan

  Law, Numbers, People

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• Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Children, Fighting

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• I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to have a close contact with war. I want my children and future generations to grow up free and in a peaceful world. War is not freedom it is a malignant force imposed by men in power. We must change the views of people in power now and let them know that in a diplomatic and peaceful way issues can be solved.

  Ana Martin

  Children, Growing Up, War

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• I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.

  Seth Godin

  Home, Space, Decision

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• When you're have known to do voice-overs for Justice League or Legion of Super Heroes or DC/Marvel, you're kind of on that radar. When you do a ton of Star Treks over your career, then you're kind of on that radar in a way. But that doesn't mean you're going to continue getting that type of work. It just means when you do that type of work, you're more firmly tied to that genre.

  Phil Morris

  Stars, Hero, Mean

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

  Adam Rapp

  Thinking, Authorship, Extensions

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Believe in the hard work. Believe in the preparation. It's not a matter of if it'll work; it's a matter of when.

  Tony Sparano

  Attitude, Believe, Hard Work

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• For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.

  Marcia Clark

  Dream, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.

  Michael Emerson

  Fall, Mean, Frustration

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

  Noel Gallagher

  Dad, Men, Thinking

  "The Gallagher interview in full". www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2005.

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• I went out a couple of times with Pierce. He's totally recognizable, and he makes no effort to tone it down. Some people were glancing over at us in the restaurant, and he just went over and introduced himself. And it does work. It dissipates all the attention. Me? I just crawl under the table.

  Robert Pattinson

  Couple, People, Effort

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• I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

  Ava DuVernay

  Prison, Horrible, Abolitionist

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

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• I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  People, Dating, Wasting Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

  Esha Gupta

  Communication, Years, Law

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• I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

  Ben Fountain

  Littles, Gaps, Ashamed

  "Interview with Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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