Working It Quotes - Page 32

• If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.

  George Orwell

  Doors, Weather, Differences

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• When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.

  Claire Danes

  Ego, Causes, Brilliant

  "Zac Efron and Claire Danes Interview ME AND ORSON WELLES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.

  Misty Copeland

  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

  Iris DeMent

  Mean, Long, Way

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• I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.

  Bonnie Wright

  Drawing, Clay, Mold

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• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  K. D. Lang

  Emotional, Thinking, Singing

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• Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Hard Work, People, Easy

  Jeffrey Gitomer, Jeffrey H. Gitomer (2007). “Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Platinum Book of Cha-ching!: 32.5 Strategies to Ring Your Own (cash) Register of Business and Personal Success”, Ft Press

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• I find that as we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works. It's as if little miracles are everywhere. Our health improves, we attract more money, our relationships become much more fulfilling, and we begin to express ourselves in creatively fulfilling ways. All this seems to happen without even trying.

  Louise Hay

  Miracle, Trying, Littles

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• It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christ, Immortal, Serving God

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• It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

  Steve Jobs

  Optimistic, Mean, Long

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.43, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Fun, Hard Work, Acting

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• I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Real, Moving, People

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• I don't get really inspired the way some people do, buzzing with ideas - it feels like hard work to me... but once I get hooked into the universe of a particular work it becomes almost like an aesthetic addiction.

  Shaun Tan

  Art, Hard Work, Ideas

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• Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.

  Antony Starr

  Collaboration, Way, Project Management

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

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• We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Dog, Cat, Mind

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• The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

  Penn Jillette

  Feelings, Important, Done

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

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• It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Country, Artist

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• For me, it’s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work – it’s really about getting it just right. You have a chance to try again if it’s not. Theatre is like playing a rock show. It doesn’t really matter if you make a tiny mistake. It’s the whole vibe and getting people to feel you. It’s about carrying the moment through all the way with you in an hour and 20 minutes of the narrative.

  Evelyne Brochu

  Mistake, Rocks, People

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• Listen, I know how old I am and that I'm just a shoulder injury from losing roles like the one in Taken. So I stay with the training, I stay with the work. It’s easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work. That's effective. But that’s the weird thing about grief. You can’t prepare for it. You think you’re gonna cry and get it over with. You make those plans, but they never work.

  Liam Neeson

  Jobs, Grief, Taken

  "Liam Neeson Turns 60!", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Pay, Certain

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2014

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• If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth.

  Daoud Hari

  Beautiful, Home, Writing

  Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.10, Random House

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• I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

  Bella Thorne

  Thinking, People, Albums

  "Ke$ha meets Destiny's Child on Bella Thorne's debut album" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. February 11, 2014.

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• We romanticize entrepreneurshi p so much that people don't do the work. It's not just a dream, not just a goal; it's a lot of hard work. A lot of people are wantrepreneurs, not entrepreneurs.

  Mark Cuban

  Dream, Hard Work, People

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• Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

  Og Mandino

  Energy, Doe, Succeed

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• If you are dissatisfied with the way the world works, it is because your heart is prompting you to change it.

  Jason Russell

  Heart, World, Way

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