Working It Quotes - Page 6

• My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.

  David McCullough

  Strong, Dirty, Struggle

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Do me a favor?” he whispered. Beth's hold tightened on his hand. ”Anything, what do you need?” ”Hum the Jeopardy theme.” There was a pause.Then Beth burst out laughing and swatted his shoulder. ”Wrath-” ”Actually,take your clothes off and hum it while doing some belly grooves.” As his shellan bent down and kissed his forehead, he looked up at her through his wraparounds. ”You think I'm kidding? Come on, we both need the distraction. And I promise I'll tip well” "You never carry cash." He extended his tongue and swept it over his upper lip. "I plan on working it off.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Hands, Clothes

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• I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Firsts, Made, Loud

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• - My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

  Lois Lowry

  Technology, Taught Us, Brain

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Reality, Dust, Ideas

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2468, Delphi Classics

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• I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Way, Freak

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 22, 2014

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• In other words, my pot doesn't work?" "It doesn't have a pulse," he says. "I have a pulse." Kimmie offers her wrist. "Wanna check?

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Pulse, Pot, Checks

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• But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

  Sarah Dessen

  Path, Made, Checklists

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.222, Penguin

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• My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Life, Work, Eye

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “A Birthday”

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• There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Night, Two

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• Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

  Emily Giffin

  Struggle, Hard Work, Luck

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

  Ally Carter

  Europe, Doe, Prison

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.252, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.

  P. C. Cast

  Darkness, Turns

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Destined”, p.201, Macmillan

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• Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.

  James Patterson

  Issues, Waiting, Advice

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• For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

  Albert Ellis

  Art, Real, Self Esteem

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• People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

  Michael Robotham

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

  Edie Falco

  Mother, Kids, Home

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• At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

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• Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?" "Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wine, Thinking, Trying

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• I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind altogether. She couldn't charm her way out from under Macon's watch. She would have to resort to older magic, stronger magic, the kind that had worked best on Macon from the time she first moved to Ravenwood. Plain old love.

  Kami Garcia

  Moving, Hair, Magic

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• You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

  Kenneth Oppel

  Blessed, Medicine, Failing

  Kenneth Oppel (2012). “This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• You'd been petting a stuffed dog?' she said 'A dead one?' 'It was a really well stuffed dog' I clarified. 'I have seen some bad taxidermy. This was top-notch work. It would have fooled anyone.

  Maureen Johnson

  Dog, Taxidermy, Said

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• The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

  Nico Muhly

  People, Yaks, Score

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hate, Done, Forget

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• New Rule: You're never going to pick up women at a coffee shop pretending to be working on your laptop. You don't look like you're sensitive, you look like you're homeless.The last guy to pick up a chick with an Apple was Adam. And when you sit across from another dateless loser with a laptop, it still doesn't look like you're working--it looks like you're playing Battleship.

  Bill Maher

  Coffee, Apples, Guy

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.65, Penguin

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