Quotes About Working Quietly

#1. One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

Vincent Van Gogh

#2. You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.

Kate Millett

#3. Ask me a question. Don't say talk about it, ask me a question. I'm not going to talk about it if it isn't a question.

John Tortorella

#4. I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

Alexandra Paul

#5. I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

Dustin Hoffman

#6. Life is not like a box of chocolates unless there's a few turds in the box.

Bill Maher

#7. Perhaps nothing is as simple as it looks. Perhaps everything has another layer, a hidden room that only reveals itself when you accidentally stumble across the secret door.
Or perhaps I'm talking bollocks and it's time to go to bed.

Liz Kessler

#8. If you can hear the bell for the next round, then you are still in the fight! Get off your stool and start swinging ... never give up & never quit on your dream!

Paul Guildea

#9. Every solution has a problem.

Andy Hargreaves

#10. Do not lie to the Scholar.

Philip Pullman

#11. Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.'

Clarence Jordan

#12. People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

Kevin Rudd

#13. I think governments are quietly terrified. There's massive unemployment, a recession they don't know how to deal with, and the measures they've taken are not working yet, and maybe they're not going to work. There's a prospect of significant social disorder.

Simon Critchley

#14. There is a plan, and your soul knows what it is.

Deepak Chopra

#15. I was made to protect you and you were made in a wa that it would always be worth the effort.

Kristen Ashley

#16. By the end of my thirties I was a mental and physical wreck!

Steven Magee

#17. A plate of Ebola virions mixed with Hendra virions would resemble capellini in a light sauce of capers.

David Quammen

#18. I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

Steve Buscemi

#19. I love you," Kenneth said, with terrible dispassion, "but I would not burn the Library of Alexandria for you"; and Anita, drily sobbing, cried, "You son of a bitch.

Jincy Willett