Quotes On Talk Less Work More

#1. Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.

Ron Fournier

#2. When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.

Andrea Riseborough

#3. I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.

Glenn Close

#4. The most influential and frequent voice you hear is your inner-voice. It can work in your favor or against you, depending on what you listen to and act upon.

Maddy Malhotra

#5. I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

Maurice Sendak

#6. It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.

Sam Kean

#7. In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.

Thomas H. Davenport

#8. True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about "knowing God," they mean more than, "I understand what you're saying about God," but also, "It fits my experience of Him.

Geoffrey Wood

#9. It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

Chang-rae Lee

#10. The fact is, women don't like to talk about money, let alone deal with it. Though we're killing it at work, earning more than ever, running our households, and making big-ticket decisions, too many women still worry they'll be judged by what they earn and how they spend it.

Alexa Von Tobel

#11. What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it ... The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all ... When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

Mark Twain

#12. You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

John Steinbeck

#13. Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.

Seymour Hersh

#14. ... The shocking thing about any stripper gathering, I discovered, was that you have never heard women talk so fast and so explicitly about money in all your life. They make the guys on the trading floor on Wall Street look like a bunch of pansies.

Susie Bright

#15. I don't believe in talking about my work. I let it speak for itself. I'd rather make money than just talk about my business. People think that because I don't talk much to the media, I am arrogant. I am not arrogant, but I do have an attitude.

Shailender Singh

#16. We realy must work on our communitcation. Perhaps if you were not so constantly intrested in other forms of intimacy, I might actually have access to the information I need to survive with my temper intact!" Alexia poked at him with a sharp finger. "More talk, less bed sport.

Gail Carriger

#17. Talk less, but work more, be united and ready, the war is close

Ali Altantawi

#18. Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

Sathya Sai Baba

#19. The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work.

Jack Heffron

#20. Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, novel ideas, differences of opinion, and added expertise.

David Sturt

#21. A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.

Jill Scott

#22. If my life can inspire people, then a television show where guests talk about their challenges and what makes them unique would work.

Anupam Kher

#23. The disadvantage of not being together at same place, not meeting each other personally, not able to talk with each other eye into eye, not able to feel each others touch; makes it difficult for a Long Distance Relationship to work.

Abhijeet Sawant

#24. You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? ... That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

Donna Karan

#25. I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you're starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things.

Beth Simone Noveck

#26. Some people only talk, while some only work. Sardar Patel was one such leader, who always worked without talking.

Dinsha Patel

#27. The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

Roy Wilkins

#28. Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

Andy Warhol

#29. Sometimes when they all talk I feel like shouting, 'so your life went wrong - why assume mine will? Maybe it'll work for me!' But this would only invite a pitying smile, and a 'she'll learn' comment. You can't win with them. You can't even compete.

Kate Cann

#30. Do you need to get that? Wherever it is."
"If I do, somebody'll just want to talk to me. I'd rather talk to you."
How anyone could work in such confusion and disorder was beyond her.

Nora Roberts

#31. I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

Yael Stone

#32. I only work with a couple of co-writers who I'm really close with, so they always know what's going on in my life and we talk about things openly, they know every song is true to something that I'm either going through or have gone through before.

LIZ

#33. If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.

Pim Fortuyn

#34. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.

Ari Gold

#35. I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

Jennifer Weiner

#36. We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.

John Paul Caponigro