Top 100 Quotes About Works
#1. LORD, I am grateful for Your Word. It shows me how to live, and I realize my life only works if I'm living Your way. Meet me there in the pages and teach me what I need to know. "Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law" (Psalm 119:18).
Stormie O'martian
#2. We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
B.F. Skinner
#3. It also works the other way around: the more you love any person (human or divine), the more you want to know him (or Him) better, and the more you do. And this always causes deep joy.
Peter Kreeft
#4. The leader's Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.
John C. Maxwell
#5. I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.
Tom Green
#6. Life is broken down into these stages: you're born and you don't know how anything works; gradually you find out how everything works; technology evolves and slowly there are a few things you can't work; at the end, you don't know how anything works.
Rita Rudner
#7. When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
William J. Clinton
#8. That many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end. That this appeared plainly by their works, and was the reason why we see so little solid virtue.
Brother Lawrence
#9. People who say the system works work for the system.
Russell Brand
#10. The unsupervised learning is the way most people will learn in the future. You have this model of how the world works in your head and you're refining it to predict what you think is going to happen in the future.
Mark Zuckerberg
#11. For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.
Patrick O'Brian
#12. Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'
Colm Toibin
#13. To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it is not the soldier but the activist who calls for peace.
Dillon Burroughs
#14. Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and ... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.
Tom Scholz
#15. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
#16. I talk specifically to the lifestyle and those who can relate to it. And I feel like, where the creativity comes in, is where you draw the parallels that everybody can relate to. That's where it's creative for me. I feel like it works best that way.
Pusha T
#18. All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
Clive Bell
#19. Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance ... for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind.
Louise Hay
#20. A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent ... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.
David Einhorn
#21. The very concept of a loving personal creator was only ever a secondary invention, a grinning wicker man thrown together in antiquity and stood in place as a chimerical response to a world whose everyday works betray the fantasy in every possible way.
John Zande
#22. That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington's been doing it like that for decades.
Jim Butcher
#23. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
Ludwig Von Mises
#24. If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense to caution his disciples so strongly against being deluded by the works of others?
Lysander Spooner
#25. The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
Pat Metheny
#26. The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#27. I don't think you're entirely understanding how this boyfriend thing works, Ben. Denying me in the shower, it's very hurtful."
"You do realize I can actually hear the air quotes when you say boyfriend.
John Wiltshire
#28. Yeah, fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.
Norman Mailer
#29. Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.
Mark Lester
#30. If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.
Henry Ford
#31. God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
Martin Luther
#32. People are far more interested in what works than what's true.
Andy Stanley
#33. Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
Augustine Of Hippo
#34. Unfortunately this is where comedy works, where people are the most miserable.
Doug Stanhope
#35. 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
#36. Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.
Kay Arthur
#37. Make use of this tool of communication by which God speaks to us - namely, the Bible! Read it, study it, memorize it. It will change your entire life. It is not like any other book. It is a "living" book that works its way into your heart, mind, and soul.
Billy Graham
#38. Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.
Taner Edis
#39. A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another ... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.
Georges St-Pierre
#40. Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle!
Nina Dobrev
#41. Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.
Kate Bolick
#42. Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It makes you think twice. It inspires you. It brings you back to yourself.
Ben Van Berkel
#43. I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde
#44. We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.
Elon Musk
#45. Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
Pat Sajak
#46. There is no need, however, to be angry at this ambition of theirs
which may be forgiven; for every man ought to be loved who says and manfully pursues and works out anything which is at all like wisdom: at the same time we shall do well to see them as they really are.
Plato
#47. What can I do?" Klaus asked.
"You can pray this works," Violet said, but the Baudelaire sisters were so quick with their tasks that there was no time for even the shortest of religious ceremonies.
Lemony Snicket
#48. If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
Richard Stallman
#49. I want the players to play that way, so I'd better manage that way. The philosophy has been thrown out there. We've been talking about it. We've been working on it, so let's see how it works. Let's see if theory and reality can come together.
Joe Maddon
#50. They question me everyday. There's always bright lights and they give me medicine that's supposed to make me tell the truth, but it doesn't work on me. Or maybe it only works when I start talking, but I never do.
Embee
#51. There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works.
Margaret Geller
#52. Further, innovators in the private sector are more pragmatic than wonky. They are empirical. They get an idea for improvement, try it, keep it if it works, and dump it if it doesn't. When their proven initiatives and pilots are stitched together, they add up to a new model. It is a mosaic.
John Torinus Jr.
#53. Oh no! My subconscious slams down her Complete Works of Charles Dickens, leaps up from her armchair, and puts her hands on her hips.
E.L. James
#54. Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.
Giuliana Rancic
#55. Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.
Rich Mullins
#56. Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.
Tim Ferriss
#57. I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.
Kurt Eichenwald
#58. You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.
Pope Francis
#59. 'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
Hilary Mantel
#60. Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.
Bill Hader
#61. No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't
Derek R. Audette
#62. You become sort of insulated in this bubble when you're working on something that it's hard to have an outsider's perspective on what works and what doesn't so it's always good to see what other people think.
John Francis Daley
#63. The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.
Henry David Thoreau
#64. Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.
I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?
Oh ... yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming!
Rick Riordan
#65. I am new to this page and still learning how it works. This is a lot of fun though getting to meet and see new people.
Darlene Cozart
#66. Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
Richard Dawkins
#67. I do not blench at nature red in tooth and claw... And much as I love The Wind in the Willows and the works of Beatrix Potter, I never dress my animals in clothes... They behave as animals should behave, with the exception that they open their mouths and speak the Queen's English.
Dick King-Smith
#68. Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.
Ledisi
#69. Well, it's true for every elder sibling, We have this supremely potent weapon "parents " on our side in such matters. In fact, such are the times when our maturity works wonders in hitching parents to our side over these younger siblings.
Parul Wadhwa
#70. In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion that man can live "by bread alone" (Mt 4:4; cf. Dt 8:3) - a conviction that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human.
Pope Benedict XVI
#71. The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
Judy Blume
#72. Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.
Brooke Burke
#74. I was trying to seduce him just by being physically near him. Like, seduction by osmosis. It works in movies constantly.
Katie Heaney
#75. Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .
John Wayne
#76. Never try to explain a 5-by-7 vision to someone with a 3-by-5 experience. It rarely works out the way you'd like it to.
LC Johnson
#77. The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.
Jack Abramoff
#78. Because that's the way the world works, isn't it? You can work hard and be miserable, or do nothing and be happy.
Brian Katcher
#79. I'm generally interested in what people believe and what works for them, what gives them hope, what inspires them, no matter what it is.
Kali Hawk
#80. Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.
Bob Burg
#81. In other words, our willpower works like a muscle and it weakens throughout the day, since it's used constantly. We all have a limit to our willpower, and once we've reached the limit, it becomes very difficult to focus.
S.J. Scott
#82. Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs
#83. I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.
CC Sabathia
#84. Congress is the third branch of government ... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.
Wesley Pruden
#85. If you have been trying to limit God - stop it! Don't try to confine Him or His works to any single place or sphere. You wouldn't try to limit the ocean.
Billy Graham
#86. If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
E.L. Doctorow
#87. For me, what works best is to try to eat healthy and not worry about the scale.
Tempestt Bledsoe
#88. Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.
Jonathan Richman
#89. That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.
Craig Ferguson
#90. I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.
Jennifer Lopez
#91. The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.
David McCullough
#92. God works as he chooses - we have our tests and He has His revelations
Susan Fletcher
#93. A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#94. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay
#95. In a week, you'll take it for granted," he said dismissively. "That's the way it works with miracles.
Stephen King
#96. Prayer still works, you need not be so quick to judge another person. You never know what they are going through. Instead, pray for them. Send encouragement their way.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#97. We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
Henry David Thoreau
#98. I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you're forfeiting your humanity.
Woody Allen
#99. When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
Tina Fey
#100. I try to do things positive on my throat, but a couple things are negative like smoking and drinking heavily. I really don't know. There's no particular thing that I do that's beneficial - it just kinda works. I guess I'd say warming up every day before a performance is the biggest thing.
Mitch Lucker
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