Top 100 What Works Quotes
#1. Advice is the easiest thing to give and often the hardest thing to receive. When you need it, and others are willing to give it, take as much as you can. When you receive it, appreciate it, use it, and apply what works for your situation ... .
James A. Murphy
#2. Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Tom Peters
#3. If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.
Jay S. Walker
#4. You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.
Joey McIntyre
#5. When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.
Will.i.am
#6. I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.
Lucinda Williams
#7. We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.
George H. W. Bush
#8. You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.
Mike Birbiglia
#9. Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
Ray Dalio
#11. Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.
Ronald Reagan
#12. Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality
Giorgio Armani
#13. I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me.
Christine Teigen
#14. I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.
Bill Hader
#15. I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.
Diane Wakoski
#16. We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.
Hillary Clinton
#17. Start small - if you drink soda, stop drinking soda. You don't have to make every single change at once or overnight, you can make them slowly to adjust to figure out what works for your body, there is no formula and there is also no right or wrong.
Shailene Woodley
#18. It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more.
Herbie Hancock
#19. As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away ... I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
Tom Shadyac
#20. I only put down on paper what works for me, and since I started out as a human train wreck, the ways I've learned to be happy also work for others.
Martha N. Beck
#21. What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.
Craig Newmark
#22. The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it's more neutrally played. The main character is very minamalistic. That's what works in this digital age.
Dolph Lundgren
#23. Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.
William Mapother
#24. Far more difficult than implementing change is figuring out what works, understanding why it works, grasping when to change, and knowing when not to.
James C. Collins
#25. I eat healthy when I can; I eat a burger when I want, and I work out. You have to live with the routine that keeps your body the healthiest, and that's what I do - I don't change it for a swimsuit shoot. You have to figure out what works with your body the best.
Gigi Hadid
#26. I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.
Ray Bradbury
#27. Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
Vera Wang
#28. You've got to experiment to figure out what works.
Andrew Weil
#29. Cut the crap. Just don't try to be anything that you aren't, have ambition but when it comes to lyrics especially just be honest and write from the heart almost to an awkward degree, at least that's what works for me.
Max Bemis
#30. Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.
Frank Oz
#31. I've had ups and downs with my skin, but after some time, I've learned what works best and what products I need to stay away from.
Bethany Mota
#32. Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
Jacob Bronowski
#33. What's important is finding out what works for you.
Thomas Moore
#34. With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.
Colin Greenwood
#35. Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will be some crowds that we just can't play a song, but we've got 90% of a show that we know is going to be a hit with the Lupe Fiasco fan. I think the catering has already been done.
Lupe Fiasco
#36. Playing half court or even organising a practise game against another team is a great way to train. It ensures a tough session and is often the best way to learn what works and what doesn't
Catherine Cox
#37. When you actually sit down to write some code, you learn things that you didn't get from thinking about them in modeling terms ... there is a feedback process there that you can only really get at from executing some things and seeing what works
Martin Fowler
#38. The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
Stella Young
#39. I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.
Joe Mantello
#40. A guy should find out what the woman likes. Every woman is different, so you can't just assume what works on one will work on another.
Chasey Lain
#42. Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation
Fareed Zakaria
#43. I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
Cate Blanchett
#44. I've never worn plus size brands, and I never had to because I found what worked for my body type. So my advice is to find what works for you.
Hayley Hasselhoff
#45. Everything I say is right.
Everything I say is wrong.
There are many conflicting opinions in this industry.
Don't take one person's word as gospel, including mine.
Take what works for you.
Paul Russell
#46. I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#47. Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
Tom Ford
#48. I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
Alber Elbaz
#49. Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.
Carol S. Dweck
#50. There is no one right way.
Just figure out what works for you!
Lorii Myers
#51. My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#52. I've got to the point where I just get on with it and the content of what I put on the records is determined from what I learn from the audience, from what works live, from what I want to hear when I go to a club or what I'd like to play when I get home.
Robert Palmer
#53. The philosophy is that you push the power of decision making out to the periphery and away from the center. You give people the room to adapt, based on their experience and expertise. All you ask is that they talk to one another and take responsibility. That is what works.
Atul Gawande
#54. Internally, when we manage portfolios, we figure out what works in large cap, what works in mid cap, what works in small cap. Generally speaking, large cap stocks want earning stability, strong cash flow, margin expansion.
Louis Navellier
#55. The excitement about independent filmmaking is that they're a little more open to taking chances. The studios are a little more careful, as far as who they choose for their film and what they're known for and staying in the genre because they know what works.
Malin Akerman
#56. One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.
Bell Hooks
#57. To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.
Chris Brogan
#58. But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
Tom Peters
#59. I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.
Joe Namath
#60. Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.
Gail Saltz
#61. Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.
Andrew Weil
#62. Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
Wendell Berry
#63. From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.
Jane Lauder
#64. The minute you start getting in trouble, you can't try to do new stuff. You can't try to make a nasty pitch or 'paint the black' because that's when you fall behind. You have to stick with what works for you and go after hitters like there's nobody on base.
Mark Mulder
#66. Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.
Richard Schmid
#67. 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
#68. People are far more interested in what works than what's true.
Andy Stanley
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.
Jason Reeves
#72. 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
#73. For me, what works best is to try to eat healthy and not worry about the scale.
Tempestt Bledsoe
#74. 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
#75. I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.
Brian Johnson
#76. My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.
Galen Rowell
#77. Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently ...
Michelle Obama
#78. I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.
Brooke Burke
#79. The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
Margaret Thatcher
#80. Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.
Kim Fields
#81. The market likes to lull you into the false security of high success rate techniques, which often lose disastrously in the long run. The general idea is that what works most of the time is nearly the opposite of what works in the long run.
William Eckhardt
#82. You launch a site, and you see what works, and you continue to make it better.
Chad Hurley
#83. As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.
Marie Helvin
#84. You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.'
Helen McCrory
#85. I just try things. And the things I like, sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. You can look at pictures where I just look terrible. But the older I get, the more I know what works. It's for the better.
Andre Benjamin
#87. No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.
Jim Jarmusch
#88. You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.
Tiger Woods
#89. Wise decisions have not given us this position of freedom," N7 said. "Wild, nearly insane decisions have proven best so far. Perhaps we should stick to what works.
Vaughn Heppner
#90. Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#91. Wisdom is the ability to realize that everyone has their own dharma, everyone goes their own way. What works for you is not the ultimate good. Know that other people have different way.
Frederick Lenz
#92. The digital detox isn't what you think it is. It's like a diet. Once you go on it, you feel better until you log into social media again. If you want real change, figure out what works best for your lifestyle.
J.R. Rim
#93. The vast majority of chatter surrounding parenthood is junk. All of these seemingly divisive decisions - like pain meds in labor, newborn sleep arrangements, and scheduling - are often phrased as moral imperatives from both sides. Screw that. Take care of your kid. Do what works.
J.J. Keith
#94. Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.
Clayton Christensen
#95. What works for me is a little bit of training and sensible eating. You know, the Cameron Diaz's of the world put a lot of effort into it! But you can't have it all - I like going out for dinner with my husband; I like meeting my mates at Starbucks!
Louise Nurding
#96. I don't have time to devote to putting outfits together before picking up the kids. I'm a creature of habit and in that way, I tend to just go towards what works for me and what's comfortable. It's really important to be comfortable when you're running around after kids.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#97. You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.
Mike Figgis
#98. Whether it is preached from good motivation or bad, Word is what "works," not the messenger.
Paul Silway
#99. It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.
Jon Meacham
#100. I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.
Rivers Cuomo
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