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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• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  Carla Gugino

  Sports, Black And White, Winning

  "Q&A: The 'Mighty' Fine Carla Gugino And David Boreanaz". Interview With Jenni Miller, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Class, White, Long

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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• What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Agony, Trying

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• If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

  Albert Ellis

  Mean, Irrational, Ifs

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• It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

  Nigel Farage

  People, Giving, Immigration

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• For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

  Doris Lessing

  Work, Age, Lasts

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• If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, "'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie."

  Denis Leary

  People, Sticks, My Favorite

  "'Rescue Me': A Final (Quite Funny) Conversation". The Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 6, 2011.

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• It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy.

  Tao Lin

  Half, Entertainment, Comedy

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• They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.

  James Salter

  Falling In Love, Mean, Men

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• At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Castles, Way

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation

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• Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

  Dean Koontz

  Pieces, Desperate, Humans

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• This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have learned: if you persevere, stick w/it, work @ it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

  Edward Kennedy

  Children, Real, Opportunity

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• A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Levels, Adequate

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• Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.

  Helen Mirren

  Stars, Hard Work, Up Early

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• If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

  Mercedes Lackey

  Stupid, Ifs

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• That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Echoes, Scary Stories

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• I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

  Mark Haddon

  Car, Mind, Abnormal

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• If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

  Joanne Harris

  Mother, Want Something, Ethics

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