Working Just Quotes

#1. I am perfect as I am. Everything in my life is working just the way it should. I am loved, and I am love.

Deepak Chopra

#2. I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

Beck

#3. My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

B.B. King

#4. I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard.

Scott Wolf

#5. I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.

Yohan Blake

#6. There's no point putting your heart and soul into a part when you know in advance it isn't worth the trouble. I'm not speaking as a dedicated actress. Enthusiasm and hard work are requisites for any job a person undertakes. I tried working just for money once and it made me almost physically ill.

Lizabeth Scott

#7. If you've got a CD that's not working, just wipe it on your trousers, and if you're not wearing any trousers, put some on

John Peel

#8. I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be.

Larenz Tate

#9. My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

Larry Bird

#10. Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

Kurt Loder

#11. I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff - not a natural gig-er.

Amy Hoggart

#12. Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

Daymond John

#13. Two people can be work at the same job, side by side. One person is working just for a paycheck. Another is working to perfect their being. Some people think that the material world will make them happy.

Frederick Lenz

#14. How often we all try to solve problems by doing more of what's not working - just doing it harder, grinding it out longer. We'll do anything to avoid the lowest of the low - self-examination.

Brene Brown

#15. I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

Tim Berners-Lee

#16. My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.

Tim Hudson

#17. No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down ...

Dr. Dre

#18. When people's brains stop working, just go somewhere else. (Death of a Doxie)

Rex Stout

#19. If I had the strength, I'd find myself otherwise occupied, but my legs refuse to move. My mouth seems to be working just fine though. If I had gills, I could go down on you.

Olivia Cunning

#20. I don't see the point in working just to be working.

Abbie Cornish

#21. When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just pull the plug and say, 'This isn't working.' There's just no security on television, especially for African Americans. It's a tough market.

Vivica A. Fox

#22. RVM Thoughts for Today
For those who love what they do , even working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week , is not work at all. It is just Fun.

R.v.m.

#23. The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn't speak; it's just there, and you can advertise it.

Frank Luntz

#24. If today shows no results, that doesn't mean the past wasn't working or the present isn't working. It just means we see only part of the picture. Faith believes God is working in every part of the process.

Deb Brammer

#25. Face it: You're always just a breath away from a job in telemarketing.

Douglas Coupland

#26. Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

Guy Pearce

#27. Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

Robert Downey Jr.

#28. Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things that take you towards your goals.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#29. When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.

Christopher Young

#30. Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.

Ernest Holmes

#31. I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything I could to tailor it to the artist I was working with.

David Finch

#32. I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.

Nina Conti

#33. If what you are doing is working, DON'T change just to be different. Just get better.

Jack White

#34. I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

Marcia Cross

#35. I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so unassuming that I loved working with her. It wasn't like working with a star, it was Sissy. Not a big deal.

Alison Pill

#36. No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

George Miller

#37. We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

Van Jones

#38. We can't spend all day trying to get the performance exactly right and you just have to accept that and move on and accept the medium that you're working in and you know, there's a beauty in working under constraints and limitations. I think a lot of great things can come out of that.

Emily Deschanel

#39. Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

Damien Rice

#40. Anytime I float by a window, I can tell whether the outside is lit or if it's dark outside. When we're working it's just day for us with the lights on inside.

Kevin A. Ford

#41. I didn't know I could do that. I mean I knew I could do that before, but I didn't know it was actually working now until you screamed. I thought I was just imagining it. And don't give me that look ... sorry? (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#42. (Innocent Assessment: They were just buying lunch for the crew working on her house. Not-So-Innocent Assessment: They're totally doing it.)

Kieran Scott

#43. I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

Don McLean

#44. I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very ... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

Patrick Stump

#45. I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book.

George Saunders

#46. He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#47. In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

Kate Christensen

#48. 'American Idol' was just really a platform. What you do after that is what separates you from the show. And I've been working really hard, touring constantly, and building those fans. You've got to work hard.

Phillip Phillips

#49. I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

Kate Hudson

#50. I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

Steven Spielberg

#51. The traceur doesn't knock an obstacle out of the way unless it's absolutely necessary. He meanders his way past it. Over. Under. Through. Around. He gets past not by moving the obstacle but by moving himself. That is parkour, and working this job I use every technique I know just to get it done.

Sam A. Patel

#52. My smile did not seem to be working. I used to have a good one. Now I get the feeling people regard it as something I just drop over my face, like a page on a flip chart.

Walter Walker

#53. Now, a lot of people may be surprised at that, but I'm very dedicated to working out. Usually, it's running. It clears my mind, totally. I get on the treadmill, which I just bought, and I run on that for about 40-45 minutes.

Viola Davis

#54. I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to talk about. Once I narrow that down, then I start working on the material, like "How do I make this stuff funny?"

Chris Rock

#55. As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.

Rosario Dawson

#56. Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because ... you just keep working.

Scott Eastwood

#57. It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

Anthony Doerr

#58. Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

Christopher Parker

#59. Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

Adam Schlesinger

#60. I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

Peter O'Toole

#61. Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you.

Noam Chomsky

#62. So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good ... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.

Dave Matthews

#63. And, at the end of a long night, as you crawl under the duvet, there is a sense of quiet satisfaction in knowing that the rest of the working world is just setting out on the morning commute. *

John Sutherland

#64. I find that working with friends is always the goal, even if it's just one person. Because the comedy community is kind of insular, it's easy to run into people you've worked with, even if you worked with someone on something for a day, or whatever.

Lizzy Caplan

#65. The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.

Bjork

#66. Let me just suggest to everybody, and I hear - last February [2015], I said we needed to have people on the ground in a coalition with Europe and our allies. This is not going to get done just by working with the Sunnis. And it is not going to get done if we just embed a few people.

John Kasich

#67. I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really lazy. People do half a thing, and then they just go out to lunch.

Josh Smith

#68. I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

Melanie Griffith

#69. Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.

Brian Eno

#70. I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy.

Brendan Fraser

#71. To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

Robert B. Laughlin

#72. I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.

Martin Milner

#73. The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable and safe so they could find the performance. That part felt organic to me.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#74. I just want to be powerful and in charge, or crazy and in charge. Say anything I want, and still know everybody loves you. Or, you know, like Jessica Lange. She's not old-looking, but she's older and she's working on that America Horror stuff. Wicked.

Jackee Harry

#75. With all the decision making in my life, I often have to pause, look up and remember God is the One working behind the scenes. I say to myself, He is able to work all things out for good. I just need to submit to Him and His ways. I can rest.

K.P. Yohannan

#76. I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

Matthew Perry

#77. I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day to day.

Connor Paolo

#78. I'm just going with the flow. I'm in the process, I'm on the path. I'm really working towards all of my goals and music is definitely on the way.

Brandy Norwood

#79. I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can't separate persona from psyche; you just can't do it.

Paul Auster

#80. As we're about to see, by striving for even greater genetic perfection we might be eliminating a lot more than just millions of people who don't fit the societal norms we've created. We might actually be eradicating the very solutions to the medical problems we're working so hard to solve.

Sharon Moalem

#81. But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

Shane Claiborne

#82. I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize.

Mel Gibson

#83. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

#84. The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#85. Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

Kevin Plank

#86. Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

Wayne Muller

#87. But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

Sean Hayes

#88. It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen.

Marc Guggenheim

#89. I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

Karen Gillan

#90. I'm in love with football, but I just needed to recapture that strength to train and play. So many people helped me along the way that I'm afraid to leave anyone out. Above all, though, I want to mention the help of my medical team that has been working alongside me for the past two years.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#91. I can't work any harder. I can't do any more. I am literally just blown away and humbled by the volunteers and how hard they're working. I think they've got a sense that they're going to be part of something bigger than themselves.

John Kasich

#92. I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

Peter Jacobson

#93. When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

Steven Spielberg

#94. When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

Zooey Deschanel

#95. You won't be expecting forever, Annwyl. And once the twins are
here, you'll be as violently cruel and madly bloodthirsty as you always
were."
"Now you're just trying to make me feel better."
"Is it working?"
"A little.

G.A. Aiken

#96. There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.

Sam Claflin

#97. I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

Crystal Woods

#98. I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

Aaron Paul

#99. I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

Stana Katic

#100. Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

Andre Agassi