Top 100 Never Work Quotes
#1. My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.
Clarence Thomas
#2. but it seems like part of your heart can never work if you don't have kids. Like it will always be shut off.
Gillian Flynn
#3. My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.
Hunter Hayes
#4. Pickup lines never work ... I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.
Kate Upton
#5. I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.
William Monahan
#6. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.
Richard Branson
#7. Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong
#8. I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!
Amanda Righetti
#9. The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
Malcolm Gladwell
#10. I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.
Macaulay Culkin
#11. More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.
Jeff Sessions
#12. You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.
Anthony Anderson
#13. When you are blessed with a gift; learn how to share, empower and monetize it. Because it is a birthed passion, you will never work.
Lasean Rinique
#14. Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#15. There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.
Tony Abbott
#16. That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.
Yasmin Paige
#17. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.
Emma Goldman
#18. Fred wasn't convinced, telling Charlie that such a service would never work and that other companies that had tried to make Twitter-like products had all failed.
Nick Bilton
#19. I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
Patricia MacLachlan
#20. If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
Marc Anthony
#21. The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never work out as planned. But I never stopped making music. I never had a backup plan. I never thought, 'Maybe I should just write, or maybe I should ... ' I just kept going.
Ashley Monroe
#22. I know it's cliche to say, 'When you do something you love you never work a day in your life.' But it is true: When you do something you love, life gets to be a little bit easier and enjoyable. So I just want people to follow their dreams.
Tika Sumpter
#23. I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.
Mike Tyson
#24. What they want can never work. Their dreams can never even get close to reality. Their hopes can never, ever be realized. It isn't humanly possible for liberalism to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh
#25. Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot
Larry Brooks
#26. Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
Jimmy Connors
#27. I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
Colin Baker
#28. You could sometimes guide people's opinions, but if they didn't want to buy what you had to sell you could shout yourself hoarse trying to make them do it and it would never work.
Clive Barker
#29. They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
Lauren Bacall
#30. Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.
Ricardo Montalban
#31. I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working.
Irving Caesar
#32. You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.
Zig Ziglar
#33. I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together.It's never a theme or a trick.
Narciso Rodriguez
#35. In the end, he turned the radio on, and fell asleep to the sounds of either country or Western - he could never work out which was which.
Claire North
#36. About to make it where you can't walk right. Fuck, I want you so bad." "I didn't plan on walking right tomorrow anyway. I thought hockey would work my thighs." His cock throbbed at the mention of her thighs. "As much as I love my sport, it could never work you the way I'm about to.
Toni Aleo
#38. We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.
Chris Prentiss
#40. I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.
Paul Reubens
#41. If you find something you really love, you will never work again.
Winston Churchill
#42. It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.
Amanda Donohoe
#44. The only plan I have is to not do anything I don't want to do - and to never work just for money.
Chris Rock
#45. When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.
Alia Shawkat
#47. I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'
Craig Ferguson
#48. You have to have passion when you're finding a recipe for a career. If you love what you are doing, you'll never work a day in your life.
Debbi Fields
#49. The mere idea that you are not in a place for the rest of your life gives you an awfully unstable feeling. That's why trial marriages would never work. You've got to feel you're in a thing irrevocably and forever in order to buckle down and really put your whole mind into making it a success.
Jean Webster
#50. I do not separate my job and my personal life; therefore, I never work and never rest.
Roustam Tariko
#51. People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.
Sheridan Smith
#52. I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.
Nathan Parsons
#53. In the real world, he and I could never work. I kissed him just that much harder and pushed all thoughts of why this was wrong to the back of my mind and surrendered to all the reasons it felt right.
Braxton Cole
#54. Love yourself as yourself. Never work to be someone else. Its too hard to keep up. Life is easier when you love you just as you are.
Janae Marie
#55. Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.
Guy Browning
#56. She chuckles again. "Because sane plans never work, girl," she says. "Only the mad ones do.
Sabaa Tahir
#57. Knowledge management will never work
until corporations realize it's not about
how you capture knowledge but
how you create and leverage it.
Etienne Wenger
#58. Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won't work. We will never work.
Abbi Glines
#59. Find what you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life, that's true. But also always try to fill a niche. What can you try to do that is different?
Lisa Vanderpump
#60. Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
Don Meyer
#61. My collaborations have to be very positive. I will never work with a person I fight with.
Micah Lexier
#62. I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.
David Foster Wallace
#63. I, a guilty sinner, can never work to get right with God - it is impossible. There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
#64. Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
Marian Wright Edelman
#65. Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.
Harvey Weinstein
#66. We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.
Christo
#67. You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.
James N. Frey
#68. To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.
Kathe Koja
#69. After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.
Chang-rae Lee
#70. It is always an act of desperation, and I keep asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.
David Levithan
#71. I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Harold Ramis
#72. Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person.
Amy Smith
#73. I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.
William Sanderson
#74. You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.
Paul J. Meyer
#75. Who are the moneylenders? They are those who were driven out of the Temple by Christ Himself 2000 years ago. They are those who never work but live on fraud.
Julius Streicher
#76. We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.
Loren Cunningham
#77. Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those of hot fusion. It may never work reliably or generate enough energy to be commercially viable.
Charles Platt
#78. Because he understood very well what was making her sick. For the first time in her life she had fallen in love at the same time that she had the experience necessary to know it would never work out.
Alice Walker
#79. My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.
Christian Cooke
#80. I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.
Lucas Till
#81. If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.
Noel Carroll
#82. With each step and each turn, we threaded deeper inside a knot, one I feared we'd never work apart. The
Ransom Riggs
#83. They say stars have greatest influences when they are in conjunction with the sun; then sure the graces of a saint should never work more powerfully than in prayer, for then he is in the nearest conjunction and communion with God. That
William Gurnall
#84. I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
Tim Roth
#85. It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.
Samantha Bond
#86. My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.
Andrew Davidson
#87. I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
Daniel Bruhl
#88. If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.
Tony Bennett
#89. Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.
Jim Ratcliffe
#90. Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.
Blake Mycoskie
#91. They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
John Amos
#92. Relationships never work well when you only listen to yourself.
Richard Foth
#93. I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
Quincy Jones
#94. What was I thinking, anyway? It would never work out between the two of us. I mean, I'm a mediator. His dad's a vampire. His uncle's a killer. What if we got married? Think how our kids would turn out ...
Meg Cabot
#95. Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
Josh Billings
#96. There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.
Phoebe Cates
#97. If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.
Dossie Easton
#98. It would never work, Ellie." "Why?" "Because we're friends, and I want to continue to be friends." "You just told me to kill myself." He chuckled. "I didn't mean it.
Jamie McGuire
#99. There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
Emma Thompson
#100. The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
Liv Ullmann
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