Top 100 Work Well Quotes
#1. I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars ... I'm not bitter at all ...
Bill Bailey
#2. To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
Donna Tartt
#3. There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#4. social media marketing will work well if you genuinely care about providing value to your audience.
M.J. Brown
#5. Products shouldn't just work well, they must unfold well.
Laura Busche
#6. The trick with getting Windows 10 to work well on my 2011 Windows 7 laptop computer was to use a HDMI cable and plug it into a full High Definition (HD) 1920x1080 resolution computer monitor at 60Hz as the sole display.
Steven Magee
#7. When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
Thomas Merton
#8. I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.
David Bowie
#9. Very few plays would work well with an altar as a fixed centerpiece.
Kurt Vonnegut
#10. Role-playing situations work well for many parents. After deprivation or prenatal exposure to substance, many children have verbal instruction as their weakest learning area, but many have role playing as their strongest.
Deborah D. Gray
#11. In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#12. The pomps and glories which he despised were all his; what to most men is an ambition or a dream, to him was a round of weary tasks which nothing but the stern sense of duty could carry him through. And he did his work well.
Marcus Aurelius
#13. The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk
#14. A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation.
Larry Constantine
#16. Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.
Aaron Belz
#17. There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
Victor Robinson
#18. I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
Adam Carolla
#19. We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#20. That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.
Albert Finney
#21. A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.
Confucius
#22. For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in a terrible pattern.
Joe Rogan
#23. A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#24. To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
William Osler
#25. They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
Lauren Bacall
#26. If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.
Matt Mullenweg
#27. I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.
Hector Elizondo
#28. In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.
James Surowiecki
#29. I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
Philip Pullman
#30. We work well together with the United Kingdom - particularly, perhaps, when we talk about new rules for the European Union.
Angela Merkel
#31. In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.
Cal Newport
#32. I knew before I came to Arsenal what kind of players were here. And of course, in training, you can see how many good players are here; the most important thing is that we work well as a team - that's the most important thing.
Mesut Ozil
#33. You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
Voltaire
#34. Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
Vin Diesel
#35. I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
Karl Pilkington
#36. I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about.
Ann Cleeves
#37. It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for revenue, government sees a seemingly harmless method of raising funds without causing much inflation, it will grab on to it.
Murray Rothbard
#38. Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
Bo Burnham
#40. One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
Jill McCorkle
#41. There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#42. Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.
Eric Maskin
#43. There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Elbert Hubbard
#44. America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.
Michael Martin Hammer
#45. We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.
Daniel Kahneman
#46. I'd have to kill Dimitri for real this time and lose any chance I might have to bring back my prince. Damn. It's a good thing I work well under pressure.
Richelle Mead
#47. My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.
Carrie Snodgress
#48. I'm letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn't work well.
Nikki Gil
#49. Entertainment and information work well together.
Marvin Sapp
#50. Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame. If an officer on your team suggested something and it worked well, give them credit. If it doesn't work well, you take the blame because you made the decision.
John Wooden
#51. Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.
Dan Quayle
#52. It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.
Albert Schweitzer
#53. Whoever coined the phrase '"I can work well under pressure" should be put on trial for crimes against Humanity.
Adriano Bulla
#55. Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
William Osler
#56. Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.
Adrian Grenier
#57. Sal is the best partner in the world but, sadly, we don't actually work well together. She insists on knowing what we are doing in advance of doing it. I prefer to discover what we end up with. Fundamentally
J. David Cox
#58. I had never met Woody Allen before Melinda and Melinda. My agent knew the producer of the movie and he suggested that we would work well together and then we did. We had a great time on that film.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#59. Marijuana, for me in particular, releases my creative juices. It doesn't work well for performing, but for creating nothing works better.
Steve "Lips" Kudlow
#61. The reward for work well-done is more work.
Jim Butcher
#62. I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.
Jenny Lewis
#63. For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled.
Fred DeLuca
#64. People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.
Cate Blanchett
#65. Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don't work well, something else will. There's always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.
Gil Blake
#66. You must work well with others and be loyal to your team. Disloyalty is the worst of all traits. I seldom use the words "You're fired!" in business, unless somebody is really scum and stole from me.
Donald Trump
#67. Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.
Randy Pausch
#68. I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.
Mary Steenburgen
#69. I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.
George Meyer
#70. My character and personality is today and tomorrow; I do not work well remembering further back.
Lech Walesa
#72. The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.
Wendy McElroy
#73. It seems to me a man doesn't have to be old to do his work well.
Alexandre Dumas
#74. When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.
Polybius
#75. As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
#76. I want to come back in 2017 if things work well.
Marit Bjorgen
#77. The tournament means so much to me as well as the things I do in Africa. I thought it could also work well together.
Serena Williams
#78. To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
Thomas Aquinas
#79. Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.
Ziggy Marley
#80. I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.
Brad Garrett
#81. If you have an unusual ability to spot, recruit, and direct those who work well with computers, even if you don't work well with computers yourself, the contemporary world will make you rich.
Tyler Cowen
#82. Perhaps the problem is not that we didn't work well enough together, but that we worked to well. In fact, maybe if we hadn't worked so well together, we wouldn't be destroying the earth so rapidly.
Steve Van Matre
#83. Celeborn is more fixed in his beliefs and methods than Galadriel, which is his failing, perhaps. As a team, they work well, although apparently they only have sex once every 2,000 years or so.
Marton Csokas
#84. When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.
William Masters
#85. I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
Robin Day
#86. For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
Stewart Butterfield
#87. There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups make it big in Britain.
John Oliver
#88. The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.
Thomas Carlyle
#89. Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.
Kamerion Wimbley
#90. As Han once told me, "Stealth and subtlety work well, but for making lasting impressions, a blaster does just fine.
Michael A. Stackpole
#91. I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'
Jon Bon Jovi
#92. The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.
John Ruskin
#93. One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
Tryon Edwards
#94. It's not that I can't cook. I just don't enjoy cooking. It takes too long and you have to stand there monitoring everything, which doesn't work well for me and my ADHD.
Jen Kirkman
#95. I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.
Jason Isbell
#96. I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.
Roger Martin
#97. We are designed to be smart people our entire lives. The brain is supposed to work well until our last breath.
David Perlmutter
#98. Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.
Aristotle.
#99. It is easy to design devices that work well when everything goes as planned. The hard and necessary part of design is to make things work well even when things do not go as planned.
Donald A. Norman
#100. One-on-one approaches to overcoming abuse work well only when the wider community pulls together to create an environment in which the victims are supported and the abusers held accountable.
Lundy Bancroft
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