Best Working It Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.”

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Author:Rob Mariano

“I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.”

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Author:Michel Foucault

“Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.”

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Author:Brian Littrell

“The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.”

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Author:Michael Pena

“Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.”

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Author:Chris Pine

“My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.”

Thinking Bigs Company Protect Weapons Workers Iron Working It Grandfather My Grandfather Pipe Hunk How Far We've Come

Author:Larry Page

“As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.”

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Author:Colin Quinn

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.”

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Author:Russell T Davies

“I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.”

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Author:Michael Shannon

“The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.”

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Author:Ryan Tedder

“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“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.”

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Author:K. D. Lang

“The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.”

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Author:Emiliano Zapata

“The land belongs to the people who work it.”

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Author:Emiliano Zapata

“I don’t have a problem with recognition ... It’s very, very rarely about who I am, it’s always, ‘I love your work.’ ... It’s always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, ‘Oh, you’re a famous personality’.”

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Author:C. C. H. Pounder

“The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.”

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Author:Garry Winogrand

“I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.”

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Author:Alexander McQueen

“What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.”

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Author:Jane Smiley

“You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.”

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Author:Chris Hardwick

“Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.”

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Author:Scott Cohen

“I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.”

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Author:Albert Gubay

“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.”

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Author:Bonnie Wright

“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.”

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Author:Iris DeMent

“The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”

Author:Halford Luccock

“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.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“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.”

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Author:Claire Danes

“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.”

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Author:George Orwell

“A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.”

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Book:Works

Source: Works

“There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.”

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Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.”

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Author:Rainbow Rowell

“I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.”

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Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.”

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Book:Grandma Moses: My Life's History

Source: Grandma Moses: My Life's History

“If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.”

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Author:Corita Kent

“When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!”

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Author:Jesse McCartney

“I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.”

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Book:Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005

Source: Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005

“If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.”

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Author:Kiki Smith

“Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.”

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Author:John Newman

“It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.”

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Book:Main Street, and Other Poems

Source: Main Street, and Other Poems

“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.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling.”

America Achievement Working It Hustle

Author:J. R. Simplot

“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.”

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Author:John Nelson Darby

“I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.”

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Author:John Wooden

“If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You aren't always going to make stuff that everybody does. The sooner that you just realize that and accept that, the better. At best, hopefully, you will like it, every time, and that might not even happen. It's the nature of your work. It's just what comes with it. So, it makes it easier to deal with anybody criticizing you or anything thinking you're wonderful when you realize that you just need to focus in this one area, which is your creative fulfillment and enjoyment.”

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Author:Sharlto Copley

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