Top 100 Quotes About Not Working
#1. It's good to be here. I'm just trying to go through life without looking stupid. It's not working out too well.
Brian Regan
#2. I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.
James Mercer
#3. It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.
Emma Watson
#4. I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.
Jesse Williams
#5. I'm not going over there. Not going. Not going. Yeah, it's not working. I do want to go. A few minutes later, my feet are walking. I tell them to stop, but they don't listen.
Kirby Quinlan
#6. Fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.
Sam Altman
#7. I watch comedy on TV, and it's too cutty for me. I get a little jarred, and it succeeds. It's not like it's not working, and I look at certain things, and it has the cutting ... it's not like I'd make terribly different cuts, but for some reason, it moves too fast for me.
David Dobkin
#8. I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
Ellen Pompeo
#9. To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
Kara Walker
#10. Because of my job, my hair gets played with a lot on set, so I try to give it little bit of breathing space when I'm not working.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#11. I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.
Chris Daughtry
#12. A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.
Marcy Kaptur
#13. We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
Will Rogers
#14. I would never be happy with just coming to TV tapings, not working house shows, and just getting by, staying in the shadows. I'm proud of the fact that I can turn chickenshit to chicken salad.
CM Punk
#15. In my own life, when I'm not working, I do wear a lot of black. I think I do feel very comfortable in black.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#16. I've always loved my red wine, and when I'm not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so it's one for me and one for the casserole. I would consume a bottle of wine on my own of an evening and then literally pass out.
Amanda Donohoe
#17. When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.
Emma Roberts
#18. My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.
Jane Kenyon
#19. This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.
Eddie Redmayne
#20. Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.
Rod Taylor
#22. In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#23. I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.
Robert Bateman
#24. On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.
Greg Daniels
#25. I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#26. When I'm not working, it does. You turning Jack on?'
'God, what a revolting thought.
Keri Arthur
#27. I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.
Aubrey Plaza
#29. Contouring makes a huge difference in your bone structure! I don't do it every day, because when I'm not working, I like to keep my skin fresh.
Jasmine Tookes
#30. As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.
Alan Cohen
#31. Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.
Julie Walters
#32. Things are not working for us because our focus is lost
Sunday Adelaja
#33. If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.
Paul Lynde
#34. I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.
Jonny Greenwood
#35. How often we all try to solve problems by doing more of what's not working - just doing it harder, grinding it out longer. We'll do anything to avoid the lowest of the low - self-examination.
Brene Brown
#36. There's a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it's not working for you - and if you leave your job, you'll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal.
Jean Chatzky
#37. The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.
Tim Burton
#38. Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
Clive Owen
#39. It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.
Bobby Farrelly
#40. The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.
LL Cool J
#41. Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
J. Michael Straczynski
#42. I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do.
Stephen Harper
#43. Dani in front of me now is not the same person I'm dealing business with.
Of course I'm different. I'm not working now. I'm flirting.
Rin Ahmad
#44. Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking toward Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty to Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping But Secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People traveled with them.
Terry Pratchett
#46. For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.
Eva Green
#47. We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing.
Robin Zander
#48. Profits are what you make when not working.
Michael Pare
#49. I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process.
Katrina Kaif
#50. Positive energy is a wonderful thing. It's your energy not working against you. The choice is yours. - Charmainism
Charmaine Smith Ladd
#51. Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.
Andy Borowitz
#52. Why don't we stop the stimulus spending? There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it? It's not working.
John Boehner
#53. The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.
Don Rickles
#54. We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Harold Ramis
#55. For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
Salma Hayek
#57. If I'm working, I'm not D.J.'ing. And if I'm not working, I'm D.J.'ing all the time.
Danny Masterson
#58. The payment of tithing seems to facilitate keeping the spiritual battery charged in order to make it through the times when the spiritual generator has been idle or not working.
James E. Faust
#59. If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
Irving Kirsch
#60. I don't ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I'm not working I'm not at peace.
Katerina Graham
#61. Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue.
Geoffrey West
#62. I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
Ian Hart
#63. Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.
Joseph Stiglitz
#64. In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
Allan Sherman
#65. Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
Faith Ford
#66. Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.
Kathy Gottberg
#67. Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
Rachel True
#68. Ideally, I want us to be working on things where if we're not working on them, they won't happen; companies where if we don't fund them they will not receive funding.
Peter Thiel
#69. If you're trying to figure out why something's not working," Old Lou had explained, "just focus on the things that do work. Move through those things first and eventually you'll find the one part that's stuck.
Danika Stone
#70. I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.
Chris Pine
#71. Those who are not working toward a better life and those who do not take responsibility for their destinies do not have victories
Sunday Adelaja
#72. Failing well means ending something that is not working and choosing to do something else better.
Henry Cloud
#73. I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.
Alexandra Stoddard
#74. Culture was now largely a matter of how to keep people harmlessly distracted when they were not working.
Terry Eagleton
#75. Fortunately, both my parents, especially my mom, have guided me, and been amazing at handling my career and my finances. They taught me not to buy what I don't need, when I'm not working that much.
Denzel Whitaker
#76. I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
Peter O'Toole
#77. I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.
Michael Shanks
#78. Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working.
Barack Obama
#79. Democrats don't have reasons for people to vote for them. They're just trying to gin up anger and resentment for their opposition. And it's just not working anymore.
Rush Limbaugh
#80. They explained that most Lyme patients' gall bladders cause major issues, because when they are not working properly, they act as a toxic magnet.
Andrea H. Caesar
#81. I like normal life, but I will go crazy if I'm not working.
Joey King
#82. Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.
Peter Schjeldahl
#83. Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.
Raymond E. Feist
#84. When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.
Ralph Marston
#85. Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
Bernard Crick
#86. I'm not a - I'm beautiful, but I'm not working because I'm drop-dead gorgeous with a fantastic body. I think I continue to work because I'm good at my craft. I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.
Adina Porter
#87. I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?
Paul McCartney
#88. When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.
Donna Summer
#89. When I'm not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can .
Scarlett Johansson
#90. I don't think drugs should be illegal. I'm not an advocate of everybody running out and using drugs, but I think the drug wars are not working, there's millions and millions of dollars being spent on the drug war that we're never going to win.
Sonny Barger
#91. If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
Rupert Murdoch
#92. There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.
Stan Lee
#93. The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either.
Arianna Huffington
#94. Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.
Shakti Gawain
#96. Personally, when I'm not working, I like to do as many things outside of the industry as I can - other things that make me happy. You kind of need to be grounded in something else besides just being an actor.
Liam Hemsworth
#97. My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
Leila Aboulela
#98. The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.
Tom Welling
#99. If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going.
M. Molly Backes
#100. When I'm not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important.
Richard Madden
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