Top 100 T Work Quotes
#1. We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.
Paulo Coelho
#2. When you're at a comedy club, if you're not funny, you don't work. People will let you know, whether it's by booing or yelling for you to get out of the club. People are drunk or whatever and they'll let you have it.
Brad Stine
#3. I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.
David Hilbert
#4. Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.
Rebecca Stead
#5. People get caught up in formulaic answers. When one doesn't work, they just go on to the next.
James A. Champy
#6. What's with the hair today?" He pokes it for good measure.
"I was tired this morning."
"Uh-huh. I can tell. You look like you brushed it with a fork."
"Worked for Ariel."
"Doesn't work for you.
Erynn Mangum
#7. It won't work
I look before I leap
I love margins and discipline
I make lists in my sleep
Baby what's my sin?
Never quit-I follow through
I hate mess-but I love you
What to do with my impromptu baby
Jonathan Larson
#8. Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't work together and society can't function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.
M.J. Ryan
#9. 'Sanctus' was done on speculation. I had no agent or publisher. I was being sensible, I suppose, by writing a standalone novel. I figured if that one didn't work, no one would be interested in reading a sequel.
Simon Toyne
#10. When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.
Monica Bellucci
#11. Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.
Tiko Kerr
#12. People have this conception of plus size models as girls who aren't fit or don't work out or don't really take care of their bodies.
Hayley Hasselhoff
#13. Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.
Luigi Pirandello
#14. No, I haven't fucked her. Not that I wouldn't love to. Trust me, if she didn't work for me, I'd hit that harder than Mohammed Ali.
Emma Chase
#15. If something doesn't work, people will say 'we told you so', and if it works, they will come up with a new theory and will conveniently forget what they had said earlier.
Ram Gopal Varma
#16. Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
Bill Burr
#17. Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that ... and I fall flat on my ass. I've never written a lasting song with that mindset. It doesn't work.
Rodney Crowell
#18. Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#20. It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything.
Vicky McClure
#21. He should hate those nails. He normally considered that sort of thing tacky or gaudy, but damn if that look didn't work on her. And because it worked on her - it was really working on him.
Shelly Laurenston
#22. Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.
Judy Sheindlin
#23. In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.
Daniel H. Pink
#24. The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed
socialism doesn't work,
Rand Paul
#25. You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
Hy Gardner
#26. I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.
Emraan Hashmi
#27. Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
Douglas Adams
#28. There are two kinds of marketing: expensive and inexpensive. Expensive marketing is the kind that doesn't work. Inexpensive marketing is the kind that works - regardless of cost.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#29. It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.
Sarah Polley
#30. If it dies, it's biology; if it blows up, it's chemistry;
if it doesn't work, it's physics!"
As quoted from grafitti on a bathroom wall.
John Wilkes
#31. I just don't want to have more people to lose. It sounds mental, but I'd rather be alone than be devastated when things don't work out and he leaves. Or something horrible happens and I lose him entirely.
H.M. Ward
#32. Be authentic and organic. It can't be forced or it won't work. And most importantly, have fun.
Richard Branson
#33. When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.
Homer
#34. You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.
Patrick Fabian
#35. be persistance....... if that doesn't work be agressive!!!!!!!
K.J. Johnson
#36. Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make
Chris Cunningham
#37. Having a strong urge is like having a child throw a temper tantrum inside you, screaming "Hurt yourself!" But if you repeatedly ignore the urge's request and don't harm yourself, your brain will learn that urges don't work, just as a child learns that throwing a tantrum won't work.
Kim L. Gratz
#38. He's always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class, which I think is a bit ironic since he doesn't work.
Ida Lokas
#39. It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#40. Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#41. If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief.
Joy Reidenberg
#42. I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.
Pamela Anderson
#43. I think really what needs to happen is the people of the United States need to stand up and say, 'Oil is an energy model from the past. It doesn't work for the planet, it doesn't work for the people, it never has and it never will.'
Julia Butterfly Hill
#45. When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win.
Rita Zahara
#46. If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
Lily Tomlin
#47. Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.
Lynne Truss
#48. A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.
Leopold Auer
#49. And even though it didn't work, it did sort of work, because when we're all together, it's like Skippy's there too, because each of us has his own little jigsaw piece of him he remembers, and when you fit them all together, and you make the whole picture, then it's like he comes to life.
Paul Murray
#50. It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Steve Jobs
#51. I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#52. It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.
Rico Love
#53. If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.
T. Allen Lawson
#54. Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
Sam Kean
#55. Vaginal penetration only doesn't work for most of us. And we're not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America!
Betty Dodson
#56. When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!
(Homer Simpson)
Matt Groening
#57. Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.
Douglas Rushkoff
#58. I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.
Diana Gabaldon
#60. Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn't work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more than two hours a day, and then only when she has the time.
Tracy Anderson
#61. People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.
Eric Drooker
#62. I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
Mark Haddon
#63. The church is called to be separate in lifestyle but never to be isolated from the people it seeks to influence. Salt, light, and leaven don't work very well from a distance.
Rick Rusaw
#64. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work.
Seth Godin
#65. Life is messy though, you know? Sometimes it's worth it to jump in and get your hands dirty. Happiness and contentment don't come along very often, so when they do, you need to hold on with everything you've got. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out, but at least you can say you tried.
Cate Ashwood
#66. It's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
Charles Bukowski
#67. The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome.
John Sulston
#68. I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.'
Shane Black
#69. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.
Daniel Tammet
#70. Well, it doesn't work. Lowering standards just leads to poorly educated students who feel entitled to easy work and lavish praise.
Matthew Syed
#71. I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn't work
John Geddes
#72. My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.
Lauren Bowles
#73. This doesn't work. Being apart destroys us. I can't live without you Blake. I can barely survive a night without you. How am I supposed to risk losing you for a lifetime?
Meredith Wild
#74. Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.
Alan Furst
#75. To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.
Frederick Lenz
#76. Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
Adam Savage
#77. I could never live with you; not 'cause I'm racist or nothing. It's just 'cause as a black man in America, I need to have someone I can come home and complain about white people to. And that just don't work with my white wife.
J. B. Smoove
#78. The deeper he got into his medical career, the more Burry felt constrained by his problems with other people in the flesh. He briefly tried to hide in pathology, where the people had the decency to be dead, but that didn't work.
Michael Lewis
#79. How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?
Thomas Sowell
#80. Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.
Gary Johnson
#81. I don't work with people who ask me questions.
Leos Carax
#82. I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.
Kanye West
#83. I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.
George Meyer
#84. When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.
DeVon Franklin
#85. Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.
Frederic Raphael
#86. In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People were very optimistic about them, but it turns out they didn't work too well.
Geoffrey Hinton
#87. Here's the thing - if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it's exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won't work after that.
Johnny Depp
#89. When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire
Stephen R. Donaldson
#90. That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
John Green
#91. Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.
Geoff Thompson
#92. As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.
Brett Favre
#93. Alone. "A military unit is a fine thing when it works," he said. "But it usually don't work. A solitary feat of arms is better, if the foe is worthy.
Larry McMurtry
#94. Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.
Vincent Cassel
#95. How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn't work.
Jane Goodall
#96. I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.
Jeanine Tesori
#97. I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.
Susan Sontag
#98. The world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work ... We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.
Ralph Fiennes
#99. Make your money work for you, don't work for your money.
Habeeb Akande
#100. I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.
Howard Nemerov
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