Top 100 Work If Quotes
#1. It definitely happens more often than you would think when someone comes up and you're like: "He's really attractive and seems really nice," and it just doesn't work if he smells bad.
Kate Upton
#2. New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
Vera Wang
#3. If you go on vacation for one week, you'll come back to two weeks of work. If you go on vacation for two weeks, you'll come back to four weeks of work. If you go on vacation for three weeks, people seem to figure it out for themselves.
Paul Orfalea
#4. Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#5. Everyone has opportunities and different doors that are opened to them in different ways. In the end, if you're talented you'll get work, if you're not, you won't, so it doesn't really matter who you know.
Rumer Willis
#6. I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.
Nigel Short
#7. Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.
Wendell Pierce
#8. I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.
Stellan Skarsgard
#9. When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
Hilary Mantel
#10. We will be judged according to the secret motives and the character of our work. If we have done our work for selfish motives or personal gain, even if the results looked noble to our friends and family, God knows our hearts.
Billy Graham
#11. Stage One is simply being able to sit down and work, if only for a single hour. Don't laugh. Ninety-nine out of a hundred can't do it. This stage is entry-level. It's kindergarten.
Jocelyn K. Glei
#12. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?
Dean Koontz
#13. We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
Lily Tomlin
#14. how many love stories begin with, "He yelled at me from his car as I was going to work?" If
Luvvie Ajayi
#15. I don't understand it, sir. What's the point of trying to fix a world were in so briefly? Where's the meaning in all that work if it's just going to disappear? Without any warning?
Isaac Marion
#17. I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.
Nick Kroll
#18. Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
Terry McMillan
#19. Specific knowledge is needed in every work, if we want to have success
Sunday Adelaja
#20. The principles always work if you work the principles.
Jack Canfield
#21. In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.
John Paul DeJoria
#22. Back to work. If I'm [writing] I'm not thinking about the crazy.
Faith Hunter
#23. A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.
Marty Nemko
#24. Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.
Eric Schmidt
#25. My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
Balthazar Getty
#26. There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.
Ichabod Spencer
#27. Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
Al Pacino
#28. ...A book connects you to the universe like a cell phone connects you to the Internet...But it only work if your battery's not dead. Mr. Nowak
Paul Acampora
#29. I'm making 20 times more with Vessel for doing the same amount of work, if not less, than with YouTube.
Anna Akana
#30. I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.
Daniel Alarcon
#31. My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.
Andrew Davies
#32. A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
Frank Zappa
#33. Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky ... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it
if you try.
Ira Gershwin
#34. I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.
John Raitt
#35. Life had a way of working out. The lid-for-every-pot theory seemed to work, if you waited long enough and were patient.
Danielle Steel
#36. If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow.
Ella Higginson
#37. Who is the forgotten man...? I know him as intimately as my own undershirt. He is the fellow that is trying to get along without public relief... In the meantime the taxpayers go on supporting many that would not work if they had jobs.
Amity Shlaes
#38. Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#39. I have always been taught ... that every man is divinely called to his work, if that work is for the good of all men. His faithfulness or unfaithfulness to the call is revealed in the motives that prompt him to choose his field.
Harold Bell Wright
#40. In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.
David Brinkley
#41. Il faut travailler sinon par go u t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.
Charles Baudelaire
#42. If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You'll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.
John C. Maxwell
#43. Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.
Frederick Lenz
#44. What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
#45. Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
Justin Theroux
#46. I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.
Scoot McNairy
#47. Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.
Warren Mundine
#48. Diligence does not work if there is a lack of innate talent.
Irving Stone
#49. Treatment is the way to go. It can work if you have the right model.
Joe Williams
#50. The Folly had last been refurbished in the 1930s when the British establishment firmly believed that central heating was the work, if not of the devil per se, then definitely evil foreigners bent on weakening the hardy British spirit.
Ben Aaronovitch
#51. You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#52. You can't understand my work if you lack the moral deficiency to kill indiscriminately.
Martyn V. Halm
#53. You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#54. Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.
Marco Brambilla
#55. Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
Sophia Loren
#56. Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
Peter Drucker
#57. And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work. If you want to win any meaningful kind of victory, you'll have to fight for it.
Eric Greitens
#58. I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.
Sarah Sutton
#59. Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
Marianne Williamson
#60. I can pretty much justify anything as work if I'm reading the news or whatever.
Jenna Marbles
#61. Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.
John Bruton
#62. The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action ... If we pray the work ... if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus ... that's what makes us content.
Mother Teresa
#63. If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#64. If you're not honest with your work - if you're being merely decorative - then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.
Michele Zackheim
#65. What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy
#66. Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.
Debby Ryan
#67. If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.
Frederick Lenz
#68. I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you. Right now I am working on my career and trying to be genuine to my work. If you respect what you have got, God will give you what you need.
Katrina Kaif
#69. There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.
Jesse Metcalfe
#70. How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?
Larry Page
#71. You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
Seth Godin
#72. When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.
Bill Nighy
#73. I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.
Donald Trump
#74. The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to help people get back to work: if they were sick, it would help them get back.
Ross Kemp
#75. Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
Abraham Lincoln
#76. I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.
Mary Badham
#77. You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.
Louis Malle
#79. A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.
John F. Kerry
#80. Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.
Ernest Rutherford
#81. Whatever your grievances, I'm sure we can address them without resorting to war," persisted Argyle ...
Nonsense," said the alien. "Do you know how many laborers and industries we'd put out of work if we were to stop the war just because a few bleeding hearts think we can talk out our grievances?
Mike Resnick
#82. I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.
Robert A. Heinlein
#83. If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass.
Shane West
#84. Just 'Your mother.'" But it doesn't work if girls say it to each other," she continues. "You have to have a penis for it to affect you in such a way.
Melina Marchetta
#85. No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.
Jeremy Irons
#86. If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.
Harold S. Kushner
#87. Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.
John Scalzi
#88. When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.
Rich Hall
#89. You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.
William Albert Allard
#90. but it seems like part of your heart can never work if you don't have kids. Like it will always be shut off.
Gillian Flynn
#91. But there's two kinds of work, kid, work and hard work. If you want to stand out, have something to sell, you got to do hard work. Pick out something impossible and do it, or be a bum the rest of your life.
Kurt Vonnegut
#92. I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
Karl Lagerfeld
#93. Work that only comes from the head isn't any good ... You need to find a way to bring your body into your work ... If we start going through the motions, if we strum a guitar, or shuffle sticky notes around a conference table, or start kneading clay, the motion kickstarts our brain into thinking.
Austin Kleon
#94. Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
Scott Adams
#95. Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.
Robin Wright
#97. I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do - a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#98. If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF
Michael Ealy
#99. Relationships are ruin by secrets, but in the same time secrets make more mysteries and more work. If you knew well this person, you won't go over this data and this about stuff...
Deyth Banger
#100. Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
Chuck Close
