Top 100 Work It Quotes
#1. The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work.
Tom DeMarco
#3. I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.
Ben Fountain
#5. Oh, I could never go back to that work, it's so dreary and the last thing the world needs is another coffee table book.
Peter Cameron
#6. The best way to deal with any economic problem is to let the market work it through.
Marc Faber
#7. When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#8. The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.
Douglas Alexander
#9. I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.
Graham Greene
#10. After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.
George Nakashima
#11. At home, a man is entitled to raise his voice maybe once a year, if something really gets under his skin. At work, it's different. I raise my voice all the time. Not out of malice, but to get things right. It's never personal.
Charlie Trotter
#12. Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real.
Robert Fanney
#13. I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.
Toni Collette
#14. The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.
Nico Muhly
#15. I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.
Tony Hawk
#17. Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.
Paul Lafargue
#18. The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.
LL Cool J
#19. There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.
Dani Shapiro
#20. How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.
Pope Francis
#21. A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
Arnold Bennett
#22. Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it doesn't even feel like work and it shouldn't. When you enjoy a job so much like I do, it's not work, it's play.
Kelli Berglund
#23. Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.
Bob Parsons
#24. Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
Mark Twain
#25. Sometimes, you gotta start small to fix what's broke. Even if it's hard work, it's worth each little step if it's something you love.
Laura Ware
#26. [M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.
Charles Taylor
#27. If something or someone doesn't work, it's in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If it does work, it has merely completed its job and is probably dead.
Andrew Solomon
#28. A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.
Robert Engman
#29. You will never go there. You have a problem with Mac, you work it out with me. I am her shield, I am her second F***ing skin.
Karen Marie Moning
#30. At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#31. But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.
Hilaire Belloc
#32. Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.
Mark Cuban
#33. Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.
Og Mandino
#34. My own beauty routine is influenced pretty heavily from my 'Mad Men' routine. If I'm in the series of work, it's hard to see myself without eyelashes every day.
Jessica Pare
#35. Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.
Anton Yelchin
#36. That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal.
Herb Ritts
#37. I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting' ... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
Baltasar Kormakur
#38. It can be also known as the Parkinson's law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." It means that if you give yourself 2 hours to do a work, it is likely that you will spend 2 hours. If you give yourself 3 hours for the same work, you will surely spend 3 hours.
Remy Roulier
#39. I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
Rachel McAdams
#40. I know this will sound glib, but don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel. That's how things slide into hell. Feelings are facts," she said, her voice a little hard, as she began to walk again. "Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If
Mary Doria Russell
#41. The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you'll find.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#42. I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.
Corey Taylor
#43. There are 365 days in the year, and as a working actor, you might only work 17 of them. You might only need to do two ads and you can afford to live for the year, but it doesn't make for a very satisfactory or fulfilling life. The point isn't to not work - it's to work.
Sarah Snook
#44. God's work in us does not eliminate our work; it enables it. We work because he is the one at work in us. Therefore, the fight for joy is possible because God is fighting for us and through us.
John Piper
#45. Believe in the hard work. Believe in the preparation. It's not a matter of if it'll work; it's a matter of when.
Tony Sparano
#47. Don't answer, Marshall. Work it through your principles." Bradenton smiled. "But in the end, we all know how this will work out. It's one annoying girl against your entire future. Against the future of voting rights.
Courtney Milan
#48. I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
Rachel Kushner
#49. Wow, this is how adults do things. They may not agree on stuff all the time, they may argue, but in the end, they work it out and they love.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#50. I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#51. Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!
Lou Barletta
#52. I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.
Bonnie Wright
#53. It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
Olivia Culpo
#54. I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.
Kiki Smith
#55. Have you ever noticed, when things seem to be working against you, that if you focus on fixing things, think about a solution, that inevitably you work it all out?
Everett Peacock
#56. What's the importance of a photograph if you know the writer's work? But people still want the image, don't they? The writer's face is the surface of the work. It's a clue to the mystery inside.
Don DeLillo
#57. I think immigration system that we have is terrible for the United States of America. We have a legal immigration system that does not work. It does not reflect the economic needs of this country in the 21st century. It needs to be modernized.
Marco Rubio
#58. To imagine yourself inside another person ... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
Eudora Welty
#59. It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
Eugene H. Peterson
#60. You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Jeff Goldblum
#61. Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I
ever been, an axe murderer."
"I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.
Nora Roberts
#62. To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.
Eileen Myles
#63. Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.
Paul Russo
#64. Murder is a high-pressure squad and a small one, only twenty permanent members and under any added strain (anyone leaving, anyone new, too much work, too little work), it tends to develop a tinge of cabin-fevery hysteria, full of complicated alliances and frantic rumors.
Tana French
#65. I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.
Mads Mikkelsen
#66. If you loveach other, whatever happens you can deal with it, you can work it out. Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that it's really not much fun having an adventure with someone you're not in love with.
Lisa Jewell
#67. Life is too short to attend to other
men's work. It takes all my care and attention to look after mine own.
Amy Steedman
#68. No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
Aminatta Forna
#69. Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
Hippocrates
#70. You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening, work it for a minute, and maybe get back in a certain pair of jeans. But there's just no such thing as perfection.
Drew Barrymore
#71. I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.
Ice Cube
#72. We have to see that the economy is not "in" crisis, the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it.
The Invisible Committee
#73. Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.
Chuck Martin
#74. Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#75. I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]
Horace
#76. What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.
Virgil
#77. Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.
Brian Littrell
#78. I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.
Prince William
#79. I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.
Kurt Vonnegut
#81. The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest.
Donald Trump
#82. There are two souls in a body of a human these souls are GOD & DEVIL.if u r going to do any work it is good or ither it is bad always listen ur GOD's soul.
Hoshiyar
#83. I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.
Bette Midler
#84. Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.
Kelli Williams
#85. He couldn't work it out. He felt too young to be married, though. He felt too young to be anything.
Sunjeev Sahota
#86. But then you're put back together again, in a wholly different order . . ." "And it hurts so much you don't know if the new order will work." "It'll heal. It has to hurt before it heals, don't you think?" He
Helen Oyeyemi
#87. The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.
Penn Jillette
#88. Work It Harder Make It Better
Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger
More Than Ever Hour After
Our Work Is Never Over
-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by Daft Punk
Daft Punk
#89. Go build it. If you really believe in something, you should just build it. If you love it, it won't feel like work. It's okay to drop out of college if you have an awesome idea.
Kevin Rose
#90. Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.
Kevin Spacey
#91. In work, it is possible to find commitment, attachment, chemistry, and connection. In fact, it's high time that more people acknowledged the electric pull that women can feel for their profession, the exciting heat of ambition and frisson of success.
Rebecca Traister
#92. It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job.
Matthew Nable
#93. I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.
Meryl Streep
#94. When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.
Francisco Costa
#95. In other words, my pot doesn't work?" "It doesn't have a pulse," he says. "I have a pulse." Kimmie offers her wrist. "Wanna check?
Laurie Faria Stolarz
#96. Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.
Lillian Bassman
#97. Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
Ronald Reagan
#98. It didn't work. It didn't work because I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.
A.S. King
#99. To award prizes is to attempt to control the course of another man's work. It is a bid to have him do what you will approve. It affects not only the one who wins the award, but all those who in any measure strive for it.
Robert Henri
#100. Now, quit lookin' at my ass Ms. Bellemy and do some work. It's good for the soul , or some bullshit, I hear.
Alex Morgan
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