Top 100 Quotes For Work In Progress
#1. Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived ... I'm still learning all the time.
Renee Fleming
#2. I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.
William Gibson
#3. Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.
T.F. Hodge
#4. I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we eat. Eat fat, and there's fat in your body. Eat protein, and there's protein in your body. Eat magic, and there's magic in your body.
Greg Van Eekhout
#5. He was husky, barrel-chested, and my age. The belly was a work in progress. It's the name that was important. He was part-time tough, like I said. Basically he's an accountant and works at a place downtown. He's really dead?" "Well," says Manny, "I didn't check his pulse, but he was in two pieces.
Stephen Dobyns
#6. The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.
Cullen Murphy
#7. Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress!
D.C. Akers
#8. There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer's estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.
Annie Dillard
#9. Writing is not always a writer's playtime. It's actually a work in progress. Few understand this and mistakenly believe we're wasting time. But it's never a waste of time when doing what you love.
David Lucero
#10. See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.
Oli Anderson
#11. We're the league of the guilty, after all, not the league of the shortly-to-become-good. We are a work in progress. We will always be a work in progress. We will always fail, and it will always matter.
Francis Spufford
#12. Truth or dare ... truth ain't fair.
Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)
Belinda McBride
#13. My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.
Richard Lewis
#14. You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.
David Longstreth
#15. I remain a work in progress and will be to the day i die
Connor Franta
#16. Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
P.J. Harvey
#17. We are His greatest handiwork even though we are still a work in progress.
Gerrit W. Gong
#18. The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
Robert Genn
#20. lower tacit-knowledge depreciation when we have less work-in-progress, resulting in higher quality.
David J. Anderson
#21. If the sum of our experiences are, say, our Work-In-Progress, our Facebook pages, our video games, our movies, our Other People's Books, then we don't know jack shit. Is that you?
Chuck Wendig
#23. I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.
Stevie Wonder
#24. An interesting side effect of pull systems is that they limit work-in-progress (WIP) to some agreed-upon quantity,
David J. Anderson
#25. Accept you are a work in progress, that there are things which you cannot change, others which take time to change and some which will be a shame to change.
Carol Vorvain
#26. Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me ... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.
Curtis Jackson
#27. Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.
Chuck Wendig
#28. Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.
Lisa Vidal
#29. Over the past ten years, I've processed a lot. I'm still processing. And there is more to be done. But I'm very proud of the person I am today. I'm proud to be gay. I'm proud to be a reckless optimist. I'm proud to keep learning and sharing what I've learned. I'm proud to be a work in progress.
Hannah Hart
#30. Jake, the super-dog with paranormal psychic powers, has one goal in life, to catch the moon." Jake and the Moon Ball (a work in progress)
Teri Heyer
#31. The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.
Amy Richards
#32. Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
Linda Ronstadt
#33. I'm a work in progress, and I hope I will never be complete
Nick Frost
#35. The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.
Jonathan Culver
#36. I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.
Jewel
#37. Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress - the solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. Sometimes
Mark Manson
#38. I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.
Emilia Fox
#39. His poetry was to find the enemy and kill him. It didn't rhyme, but it was still a work in progress.
Shane VanAulen
#40. Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
Octavia E. Butler
#41. Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.
Sarah Addison Allen
#42. The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
Terry Pratchett
#43. Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.
Michael Merzenich
#44. I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.
George Papandreou
#45. The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
Christopher Hitchens
#46. Achievers are those who have redefined impossible, changing what can't be done into a work in progress.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#47. As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#48. We're building a movement. It's undeniably a work in progress, but there's a fundamental desire to see capitalism to do something different.
Thomas Perez
#50. I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner
#51. As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
Marco Rubio
#53. When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
Mercedes McCambridge
#54. Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing.
Nate Silver
#55. It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.
Rick Rubin
#57. But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.
John McCain
#58. I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
Barbra Streisand
#60. People and relationships never stop being a work in progress
Nora Roberts
#61. You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.
Chalene Johnson
#63. I'm not cruisin' this opportunity in time and space for you to like or dislike my 'get-down'; I'm here 'cause I'm down to get it right by the time I return to the 'mothaship'. I remain a work in progress.
T.F. Hodge
#64. Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
Walton Goggins
#65. It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.
Gloria Estefan
#66. If you notice yourself viewing a potential partner as a "work in progress", that's a sign to find someone else.
Miya Yamanouchi
#67. I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.
Stephen Malkmus
#68. All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams
#69. I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
Eve Ensler
#70. Start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#71. Tam considers me a challenge. I consider Tam a work in progress. I also think there's a gentleman lurking under that calculating exterior. Tam thinks 'gentleman' is a dirty word. I talk dirty to Tam every chance I get.
Lisa Shearin
#72. Life's a daily work in progress. Always move forward reaching new goals. Hit a road block? Keep calm & stay strong.
Timothy Pina
#74. This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.
Daphne Zuniga
#75. When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.
Andrew Dominik
#76. This city, All they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We're all a work in progress as men, And you still love us. And I thank you so much for embracing us.
Kevin Durant
#78. Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.
Simon Schama
#79. I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
Poppy Z. Brite
#80. I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.
Adrienne Bailon
#81. Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.
Max Frisch
#82. The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.
Carnie Wilson
#83. I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.
Zachary Knighton
#85. I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen
Ani DiFranco
#86. I would say national security is work in progress.
Jeb Bush
#87. She was born of space.
And starlight.
But she bled wrath.
And vengeance.."
[From Current Work In Progress]
Jenna Streety
#88. I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.
Ashwin Sanghi
#89. I am what I am, and what I am is a work in progress.
E.E. Blackwood
#90. I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.
Jake Busey
#92. Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
Pete Sampras
#93. Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.
Lauren Bowles
#94. We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.
Donna Edwards
#96. Relationships are a never-ending work in progress.
Francis Ray
#97. But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
Daisaku Ikeda
#99. I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
Raymond Chandler
#100. Ma's still spending too much money on clothes. I'm trying to teach her that material possessions don't equal happiness. It's a work in progress.
L. H. Cosway
