Best work & stills Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.”

Inspirational Firsts Stills Work Rooms Working Class Hero

“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”

Stills Hours Work Company Sitting Train Miles Sixty Going To Work Human Resources Getting High Sitting Still Large Companies

Author:J. Paul Getty

“I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?”

Thinking Knows Feels Doe Stills Passion Enjoy Work Simple Truth Is Sitting Sick Constant Committed Driven Kicks Sitting Still

Author:Beverly Sills

“No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.”

Thinking Life Feels Trying Mind Stills Matter Body Pain Work Judging Letting Go Work Out Conclusion No Pain

Author:Robert Adams

“I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.”

Years Wells Stills Work Gun Starting Track Ran Halfway

Author:Joss Whedon

“Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.”

Needs Stills Done Work Teacher Enlightenment Commitment Add Recognition

Book:Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

Source: Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

“I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.”

Should May Stills States Death Work Garden Function Agree Indifferent Find Me Unfinished Cabbage

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.”

Life Long Stills Asks Work

Book:A Whole New Life

Source: A Whole New Life

“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.”

“I still have that new senator smell.”

Stills Politics Work Comedy Smell Senators

Author:Cory Booker

“How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them.”

Knows Stills Mother Desire Strong Work Sweet Daughter Gentle Friendly Fierce Adulthood Adventurous Nurturing Working Women

Author:Anne Roiphe

“You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.”

Ifs Knows Stills Wisdom Waiting Black Leadership Work Roles History Policy Like You Equal Models Female Individuality Ideology Role Models Soviet Foreign Policy Equal Rights Specialists

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills Ends Past Dies Father Work Alive Son Medicine Retiring Desks

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”

Stills Action Motivation Work Half Finished

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.”

Ifs Way Stills Dies Causes Work Engaged Supposing Zion

Author:John Taylor

“The workman still is greater than his work.”

Stills Work Greater Workmen

Author:Menander

“Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.”

Thinking Want Years Stills Hard Bigs Work Five Five Years Think Big

Author:Chanel Iman

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”

Love Stills Passion Work Commitment Intimacy Developing Fades Best Work True Passion

Author:Robert Sternberg

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

“I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”

“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”

“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.”

Stills Enough Jobs Work Balance Attractive Good Enough Good Job Not Good Enough

Author:Alain de Botton

“The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.”

Stills Moving Passion Individual Work Mankind Positive Remains Individuality Sparks

Author:Igor Sikorsky

“If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it's very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.”

Ifs Stills Hard Born Work Business Hard Work Complaining Weekend Born Again

Author:Sak?p Sabanc?

“Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.”

Stills Work Labor Valuable Inevitable

Book:Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.”

Ifs Stills Young Work Rich Lucky Few Friends

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.”

Art Stills Ideas Change Work Power Painting Paint Drawing Painter No Idea Strokes Brushes Great Power Depiction Quickness Brush Strokes

Author:Hilma af Klint

“Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.”

Thinking Inspirational Mind Stills Done Spirit Work Decision Worry Plans Negative Stress Work Out Mindset Planning Upset Negativity Negative Thoughts Decisiveness

Author:Joel Osteen

“My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.”

Giving Children Stills Hard Whole Mother Work Chance Brother Whole Life Cooks My Brother Grandmother My Grandmother Maids Only Child Babysitter Scraping Chances In Life

Author:Julian Castro

“The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.”

Life Wells Doe Stills Work Masters Ought Honor Glory Soldier Possession Workmen Precious Possessions

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V

“I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.”

Thinking Stills Form Artist Difficult Work Cases Alive Parting Chariots

Author:Kit Williams

“When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was interested in making. I still do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but the reason I can move quickly is that I've done the background work first, which no one usually sees. I prepare myself thoroughly, and then when it is time to move ahead, I am ready to sprint.”

People Firsts Stills I Can Reason Done Might Today Moving Work Deals Ready Details Planning Backgrounds Comment Moving Ahead Sprint Pertinent

Author:Donald Trump

“You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.”

Ifs Want Life Years Stills Might Next Found Work Walks Steps Worry Danger Fields Mines Waste Beats Corners Convinced Strikes Flames Ambitious Odds Plates Next Year Step Up Radiance Betting Found You

Author:Dave Sim

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