Work Not Quotes

#1. Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.

Gary L. Thomas

#2. To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

Eric Ladin

#3. I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.

Paul Giamatti

#4. As I found, if you complete your work more efficiently, your reward is more billable work, not more leisure time. However, once you're comfortable with the facts of a case, you simply lack the incentive to resolve the case, since you'll just have to start the arduous task of learning a new case.

WIlliam R. Keates

#5. You were brought up to work - not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut - go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him - whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.

Clifford Allbutt

#7. I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether area, somewhere between the worlds of documentary and photojournalism (two very vague words) and the world of art. I think a lot of street photography falls into this nether area.

Alex Webb

#8. It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

E.F. Schumacher

#9. Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Steven Pressfield

#10. Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

Glenway Wescott

#11. The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter.

Edgar Alwin Payne

#12. For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.

Jenny Offill

#13. I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

Rafael Nadal

#14. Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

Elaine Stritch

#15. In a sport like this - hard work, not much glory, but still popular in every century - well, there must be some beauty which ordinary men can't see, but extraordinary men do. - George Yeoman Pocock

Daniel James Brown

#16. When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.

Paul Auster

#17. In creating an ideavirus, the advertiser creates an environment in which the idea can replicate and spread. It's the virus that does the work, not the marketer.

Seth Godin

#18. I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people.

Josh Homme

#19. Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

Marianne Williamson

#20. It is on our bodies that the law must go to work, not only on our minds. Reason must govern in collusion with the senses it subdues, rather as an astute sovereign rules in a way that allows each citizen to feel that he is doing no more than obeying the diktats of his own desires.

Terry Eagleton

#21. I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

Callie Khouri

#22. You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.

Pablo Picasso

#23. Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

Kerry James Marshall

#24. Prophetic preaching is dangerous work, not only because it has a subversive edge but because it requires an epistemological break with the assumed world of dominant imagination. This epistemological break makes us aware of our assumptions we have not recognized or reflected upon.

Walter Brueggemann

#25. We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

Alvar Aalto

#26. Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

Swami Vivekananda

#27. But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.

Edith Rogers

#28. Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Travis Bradberry

#29. Show so clearly that this matter is God's work, not mine.

Mary Potter

#30. Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

Salvador Bernal

#31. Spirit doesn't blame for work not done. Life doesn't depend on whether something gets done or not.
Work isn't the source of happiness. Your attitude toward your work, not the task itself, comes first.

Deepak Chopra

#32. The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.

Randy Schekman

#33. So you must do right for the sake of the right, not in the hope of reward; you must work for the sake of the work, not in the hope of seeing the result; you must give yourself to the service of the world because you love it, and cannot help giving yourself to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#34. We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

Marco Rubio

#35. The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

Jack Tatum

#36. believe in work not in word.

Gita

#37. To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

Peter Drucker

#38. We are to work not to satisfy our own needs, but rather for the good of others and for the purpose of establishing the Kingdom of God here on earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#39. I've used my experience from playing sports in almost every aspect of my life. Playing soccer is where I found my voice, and playing softball was where I learned precision, and in every game I learned to play as a member of a team - to work not for my own glory, but for a shared goal.

Linda Sanchez

#40. A silly idea about a book of blessings couldn't really work. Not seriously.

Maeve Binchy

#41. But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

Jane Lynch

#42. I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

Chris Robinson

#43. Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

Dave Obey

#44. The unfortunate reality is we are probably missing your work. Not because it's not good, but because we've learned to tune it out.

Jeff Goins

#45. It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.

John Stuart Mill

#46. Everyone loves a flawed hero. I don't want perfect people. I want people who have a story, have been through some shit, dance to their own beat and still make i work, not the fake-arsed posh fuck-wits who look down on us slightly geeky weird-but-cool entrepreneurs.

Dan Meredith

#47. I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

Christopher Meloni

#48. It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

Vilfredo Pareto

#49. I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work - not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#50. I am a karmayogi-someone who becomes conscious of herself and the Divine through work, not through meditation in some ashram or saying Hail Marys

Kelly Cutrone

#51. Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charlie Chaplin

#52. The witness of the Holy Ghost is even more compelling than the witness of sight. As members of the Church, we become witnesses of the Savior and the truthfulness of this work not only in word but also in keeping our covenants and in how we treat others and in how we live our everyday lives.

Loren C. Dunn

#53. I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

Lesley Manville

#54. Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

Joshua L. Goldberg

#55. There is no safe container to store your values while you're at work; not living your deepest values will leak on you

Stan Slap

#56. Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

Dalai Lama

#57. I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

Walter Kirn

#58. For me, at the end of the day, I want to be judged for my work, not for what I've been through and past experiences, necessarily.

Jamie Clayton

#59. I've always hated the big United Way drive at work. Not because of the United Way. Great organization. Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.

Kris Dunn

#60. I make work not to give answers but to question things.

Florentijn Hofman

#61. The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success

Simon Sinek

#62. And Pencroft returned to his work, not without uttering a sigh of regret, for every sailor is a born fisherman, and if the pleasure of fishing is in exact proportion to the size of the animal, one can judge how a whaler feels in sight of a whale.

Jules Verne

#63. I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

Leonard Cohen

#64. Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.

Cynthia Ozick

#65. I do have a website that's updated regularly. It's a great way for potential clients to check out my work anonymously. As most of my web visitors would be interested in my work (not my history, the equipment I use, my "philosophy", etc.), it's my work that's predominantly featured on the site.

John Keltonic

#66. I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book, which I specifically put in the contract. Just a book about my work and what I did.

Linda Ronstadt

#67. For several years the researchers did not let anyone else in on their work, not because they were afraid it would be stolen, but because they were afraid that their colleagues would laugh at their seemingly crazy ideas.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#68. That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.

Marya Hornbacher

#69. All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Thomas Carlyle

#70. I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.

Eric Weiner

#71. Want to keep your life? Look for work, not a job

Sunday Adelaja

#72. No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.

Robin Wright

#73. I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner.

Lynsey Addario

#74. Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

Walter Darby Bannard

#75. Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.

Sam Worthington

#76. Peter, before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. (578)

Ayn Rand

#77. A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

Zengzi

#78. Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.

Ayn Rand

#79. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work. (Not that I am in any real sense Nemur's student or disciple as Burt is.) I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable.

Daniel Keyes

#80. To work, Sissy. To. Work. Not to start shit. Not to race. Not to gamble. And definitely not to get arrested or turn all of Japan against you. Remember, I'm not stationed right around the corner like before.

Shelly Laurenston

#81. I used to try to hypnotize myself into a Zen-like state of resignation at the outset. It doesn't work, not for this grasshopper. I have my own process, as they say. I call it the motherfucker process.

Matthew B. Crawford

#82. I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear.

Baba Amte

#83. Unplanned occurrences are reminders to check your tendency to think that you're the one in control. In reality, it's someone else....

It is a vivid reminder that in ministry, no matter how hard you work, ultimately it's God's work, not yours. All this puts our work in perspective.

James Martin

#84. Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

Michael Martin Hammer

#85. You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

Mike Rowe

#86. The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

Stewart Udall

#87. We were created to work (not have jobs) for a living

Sunday Adelaja

#88. Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

Frederick Lenz

#89. You can multiply your life through work, not jobs

Sunday Adelaja

#90. Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.

Octavia Butler

#91. The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.

Robin Williams

#92. I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

Otto Preminger

#93. She longed for a man who'd be just her man, not some player who'd have a bunch of other women on the side. She wanted a man who'd work, not some jerk who was always getting fired because his job description was smaller than his ego. Someone reliable and solid, like her Grandpa Earl had been.

Eden Connor

#94. I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

Benigno Aquino III

#95. I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, "Love one another as I have loved you." Ask yourself "How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?" Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

Mother Teresa

#96. I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few.

Shashi Tharoor

#97. We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Eugene Delacroix

#98. Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Ayn Rand

#99. It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.

Judith Ellen Foster

#100. No, blowing up cities doesn't work, not in the long term. You've got to find something that the people in charge aren't willing to give up. A price they aren't willing to pay.
Which leads us to Talis's first rule for stopping wars: make it personal.

Erin Bow