W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Work brought my family to Tennessee. I was just a kid. We lived in a green house off Old McClure Road. A big mimosa tree in the yard. Fern-like leaves and summer blooms. It reminded me of Florida. The mimosa was an invasive species there. State wanted them cut down. But we left ours alone. A tree growing where it should not be. Like my family. We were invasive too.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.”
“Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up, not a top-down candidate producing organization like the two official parties, working from school boards to state legislatures and beyond. Not easy in the regressive U.S. political system, but not impossible.”
“Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.”
“Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.”
“Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.”
“Work certainly does help fill a void.”
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
“Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.”
“Work could cure almost anything”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.”
“Work creatively! Create style out of your errors.”
Source: The Event Usher’s Handbook
“Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.”
“Work delivers us from three great evils: boredom, vice and want.”
Source: Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued
“Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.”
“Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?”
Source: Original Sin
“Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.”
“Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.”
“Work divided is in that manner shortened.”
“Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
Source: Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life
“Work doesn't have to be great in order to dignify it as work. Work just is. It's quite value-neutral. The issue is about what kinds of power and control you have at work as a human being. That's the commonality. It's not necessarily what the task is.”
“Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.”
“Work done by human beings for human beings.”
“Work done by non-Christians always contain some degree of God's common grace as well as the distortions of sin. Work done by Christians, even if it overtly names the name of Jesus is also to a significant degree distorted by sin.”
Source: Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
“Work done by you with unconditional love and pure devotion goes straight in the category of divine and immortal craft.”
“Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.”
Source: Complete Works
“Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment level, generates deviance, and detracts from the GNP...Work no longer means the creation of a value perceived by the worker but mainly a job, which is a social relationship. Unemployment means sad idleness, rather than the freedom to do things that are useful for oneself or for one's neighbour. An active woman who runs a house and brings up children and takes in those of others is distinguished from a woman who 'works,' no matter how useless or damaging the product of this work might be.”
Source: The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies
“Work done right enables you to focus on something bigger than yourself.”
“Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.”
“Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.”
“Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. Give the required time to your family, friends & have proper rest. Value has a value only if its value is valued.”
“Work eight hours a day for a living and many more hours a day making movies and you'll work all your life to be a success overnight.”
“Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.”
“Work ends up dehumanizing people.”
“Work enthusiasm.
Give your very best in all that you do.
It is a great gift to yourself and world.”
“Work—especially the sort of work that gets your hands dirty and that brands you as a member of the working class—no longer seems germane to our novelists’ apprenticeships and, not coincidentally, is no longer easy to find in the fiction they produce. Whether one finds this scarcity something to worry about or simply a fact to be noted probably says a lot about one’s class origins and prejudices.”
“Work ethic = dreams! That to me is that no one gets a free ride. You have to work for it and it doesn't get handed to you.”
“Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the degree that Exley was, but I think all writers are. There are highs and lows. Look at David Foster Wallace.”
“Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.”
“Work ethic is one of the biggest things my father taught me. That man worked like every day, every day, 9 to 5, well 9 to 9 in his case, but he would treat it as if it was a 9 to 5 job. He would clock in. He would put in his hours. That is how you can write those you know incredibly long books that unfortunately there is not much market for anymore, but that is also how you can explore an idea on a deeper level than we get in our media surface these days. It's tough.”
“Work ethic is the most important component of being successful.”
“Work ethic must exceed the expectation level.”
“Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.”
“Work ethics eliminates fear.”
“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."”
“Work expands to fill the intelligence available, human or artificial (Parkinson's Law codicil)”
“Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before you start writing. Without a sense of direction, you can get lost in the middle.”
“Work fast."
"Yeah." I point at the screen. "First I have to wait for my computer to wake up."
"Hurry."
"Okay, I'll wait faster."
"Sarcasm.”
Source: Project Hail Mary