Working It Quotes - Page 14

• I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

  Thomas Mullen

  Family, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think it's Canadian but that may be a coincidence. I've been through all sorts, the original jam man was great but clicked on the loop if you didn't get it just right, something I am familiar with. As I said in another answer I have an RC50 but haven't fired it up yet. On paper it looks great.

  Robin Guthrie

  Men, Thinking, Answers

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• Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one has to be changed to be saved, that's salvation by works. It is also salvation by the flesh. The truth is, one is cleansed from the sins of the flesh just as he is saved; by yielding to the Holy Spirit and letting Him do His work.

  Jack Hyles

  Christian, Divine Order, Flesh

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• Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

  Frank Bettger

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Trying

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Wisdom, Art, Prayer

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• I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

  David Fincher

  Vader, Luke

  "David Fincher: The Complex Mind of 'Social Network's' Anti-Social Director" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 2, 2011.

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• People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

  Simon McBurney

  Math, People, Brain

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• Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.

  Alec Guinness

  Opportunity, Theatre, Actors

  Alec Guinness (1997). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Viking Press

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• I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Women, Believe, Hard Work

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• Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

  Charles Kettering

  Ideas, Enough, Strikes

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• The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

  Colleen Atwood

  Moving, Reality, People

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• I admit there’s an element of brutality in all my work - it’s part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I’m trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people’s pain and humiliation.

  Todd Solondz

  Pain, People, Trying

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It's simple - we don't do anything. I think the trouble with a lot of people is that they work too hard at staying married. They make a business out of it. When you work too hard at a business you get tired; and when you get tired you get grouchy; and when you get grouchy you start fighting; and when you start fighting you're out of business.

  George Burns

  Wisdom, Tired, Fighting

  George Burns (1980). “Living It Up”, Berkley

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• Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’

  Joanna Macy

  Hero, Heart, Adventure

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• When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

  Raekwon

  Wall, People, Way

  "Raekwon Needed To Tease F.I.L.A. Album With Lost Jewelry" by Maurice Bobb, Sway Calloway, www.mtv.com. February 23, 2013.

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• The consciousness and life force do what they want...
  one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly
  and the next minute they send a whole town crushing with tremendous force...
  who can work it out?

  Mooji

  Crush, Butterfly, Wings

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• A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

  Tom Freston

  Careers, Interesting, Luck

  Tom Freston’s Commencement Address at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, May 27, 2009.

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• We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.

  Douglas Crockford

  Long, People, Design

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.99, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Network Spinal Analysis represents the epitome of body work; it is at the leading of body/mind/spirit integration. This work will transform the planet.

  Candace Pert

  Mind, Analysis, Body Work

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• So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising

  Saul Perlmutter

  Understanding, World, Littles

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• The man, the art, the work--it is all one.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Art, Men, He Man

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

  Tim Tharp

  Games, Training, Giants

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.82, Scholastic UK

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• For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

  Stevie Wonder

  Hate, Long, People

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• If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

  Roma Downey

  Stealing, Ifs, I Can

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• Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

  Lou Barletta

  Government, Bigs, Big Government

  "The end of the GSA? House committee chair: We've seen only the 'tip of the iceberg'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 17, 2012.

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