Working It Quotes - Page 39

• A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

  Helmut Jahn

  Simple, Years, People

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• You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after we do it.

  Bruce Mau

  Answers, Study, Studios

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• It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Country, Brother

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Mistake, Double Standard, World

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• Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Faith, Goal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1228, Manonmani Publishers

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• This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.

  Mark Driscoll

  Needs, News, World

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• Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Worry, Decision, Made

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• It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

  Alan Arkin

  Doubt, Done, Murder

  "Alan Arkin: Random Advice from an Older Gentleman". www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen.

  Heath Ledger

  Scary, Swim, Trying

  National Post, May 2001.

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• Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

  Fanny Brice

  Love, Fun, Cards

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• Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Crush, Holiday, Sleep

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• Work? It’s just serious play.

  Saul

  Play, Serious

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• When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.

  Zach Klein

  Trying, Keep Trying

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• Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, African American, Black

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• I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

  Steve Jobs

  Hate, Real, Moving

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Doe, Proportion

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• I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Errors, Evil

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• The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

  Patti Smith

  Communication, Responsibility, Artist

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• He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.

  Gary Paulsen

  Sorry, Dark, Long

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Brain, Would Be

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• In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

  Neil Strauss

  Life, Appreciation, Time

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.108, Canongate Books

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• A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Inspiration, Errors

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

  Gary Sinise

  Success, Destiny, Thinking

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• I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

  George Clooney

  Inspirational, Sight, Parent

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