Top 100 Working Well Quotes

#1. Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going to be working on an album together.

Criss Angel

#2. I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

Alexis Denisof

#3. It's very well known that the Republicans have problems with minorities. The Democrats have big problems with white people. Obama only got 39% of the vote. He only got 36% of the working-class white people.

Bill Maher

#4. As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.

Bill Smith

#5. Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.

J.J. Abrams

#6. My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

Joel Silver

#7. More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

Valentina Tereshkova

#8. We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people.

Bernie Sanders

#9. I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

Gemma Arterton

#10. I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that people tend to think that's enough.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#11. I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It helps me to write any play that I'm working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors.

Tracy Letts

#12. There was nothing like working law enforcement for a few years to give you a jaded view of human nature. No matter how well you thought you knew someone, no one ever entirely knew anyone else.

Josh Lanyon

#13. And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.

Andy Serkis

#14. I stay healthy through eating well, working out - simply living a healthy lifestyle.

Roselyn Sanchez

#15. All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe. It will work miracles in your life.

Louise L. Hay

#16. When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.

Sandra Bernhard

#17. I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

Sukhwinder Singh

#18. And I want us to be happy again." "You already said that." "Yeah," she said, "but I figure it's worth repeating." "Well, it must be working," he said, tightening his arms around her. "I don't know about you, but I feel about a million times happier already.

Jennifer E. Smith

#19. foundations, laid in the dark but well laid. On these, methodically and carefully but with a deftness and certainty that seemed nothing of his own but a knowledge working through him, using him as its vehicle, he built up the beautiful steadfast structure of the Principles of Simultaneity. Takver,

Ursula K. Le Guin

#20. I feel happy, I feel sad, I feel like running through the walls
I'm overjoyed, I'm undecided, I don't know who I am
Well maybe I'm not perfect, at least I'm working on it

Paramore

#21. Everything that happens in our lives is "good information" about the degree to which our choices are working for us. We can, however, choose to believe that we are a victim of the world we see, and have no choices. And, of course, we will receive "good information" about this belief as well.

Bill Crawford

#22. While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

Paul Claudel

#23. But remember, the logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point, and that's exactly what many criminologists argue happens with punishment.

Malcolm Gladwell

#24. I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

Mose Allison

#25. Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.

Gaspard Ulliel

#26. Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Seamus Heaney

#27. the well-paid pickings for PhD Program Dropouts Who Only Have Experience Working in Academia were basically nonexistent

Sarah Kuhn

#28. Sometimes when you do voices next to each other, especially when you're first starting out, they tend to bleed into each other. Working on a show like 'Futurama,' we do multiple characters there, but we've been doing it for a while, so the voices are really well-defined in our heads.

Phil LaMarr

#29. One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner working of another person's heart.

Khaled Hosseini

#30. Running twenty-six miles is no fun.
I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him.

Tony Hawks

#31. I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

Augusten Burroughs

#32. Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.

Mae West

#33. I'm expecting a lot from myself, I have set the bar high and I want to do really well for my teammates. I love working out and preparing so I have spent a lot of time doing that.

Giovani Bernard

#34. I'm not following any of this, you know. Beecher who?"
"Henry Ward Beecher." Another slug from the bottle. "He's a preacher. Hey, that rhymes."
Well, that answers any questions about whether the alcohol is working.

Rysa Walker

#35. You know what I hate about working? Bosses ... The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well ... I think you see the conflict.

Bill Hicks

#36. He'd gotten this far on bravado and the time honored tradition of ignoring any inconvenient nagging thoughts, but it wasn't working so well now.

Michael Langlois

#37. I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

Robert Mueller

#38. you want to write well, write prolifically. If you want to write prolifically, write habitually. If you want to write habitually, learn how to have fun with the process. And if you want to learn how to have fun with the process, pay attention to what's working for you and what isn't.

Anonymous

#39. All right, so we're also all fucked up. But hey, you think sober people aren't all fucked up? The world is being run by sober people - and it doesn't look like it's working out all that well. Just

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#40. [Ronald Reagan] appealed to that group of [working American] people and we can do it again, because they've had, now, eight years of [Barak] Obama. Things have not gone well.

Jeff Sessions

#41. I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

Mia Wasikowska

#42. Well, we actually never went around. We worked together, struggled through the corporate maze, shared our dreams, and, somewhere along the way, we came closer to each other. At the end, we touched each other's heart. The impact was profound, much more than I thought it was initially.

Sandhya Jane

#43. I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

Gary Kemp

#44. A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

Steve Martin

#45. They're still working on the script - they've got to get that nailed down and they want the first movie to come out obviously, not get too ahead of themselves. But yeah, it's looking good. I love the second book a lot as well, so kind of diving into that is awesome.

Josh Hutcherson

#46. And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).

Joanna Russ

#47. Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.

Tony Visconti

#48. Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

Jim Henson

#49. My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young. He's a guitar player and does programming as well. To have the working and personal relationship coincide has been very natural.

Atticus Ross

#50. You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that literally we will react to the same note in the same way. We will have the same answer most of the time.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#51. A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

Flannery O'Connor

#52. All of us are working on the same project. Some consciously, with understanding; some without knowing it...And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things-they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well." (6.42)

Mike Dariano

#53. I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in 'The Ruins', it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the '70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.

Jonathan Tucker

#54. Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places. F

Fran Lebowitz

#55. I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#56. I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.

Emma Donoghue

#57. I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

Paula Cole

#58. If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

Irving Kirsch

#59. I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.

Owain Yeoman

#60. As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on sports and community issues. There are many more jobs I've done in my day, I can't remember them all.

Franny Armstrong

#61. You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.

Kate Millett

#62. Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

John Zorn

#63. Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

Harper Lee

#64. What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.

Sam De Jong

#65. We are in the midst of an exciting canvass ... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#66. If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

John Cameron

#67. I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film I'm making no money - probably losing money. But if I'm doing a studio film, I'll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working.

Eric Stoltz

#68. To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.

John Lennon

#69. You know," Ghastly said to Skulduggery, "for someone who hates plans, you've got an awful lot of them."
"Well, yes," Skulduggery replied, "but really, the likelihood of any of them actually working is extraordinarily slim.

Derek Landy

#70. Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.

Stephen Root

#71. It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.

John Steinbeck

#72. The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

Annie Lennox

#73. Well I'm always working on constantly everything. I never take the approach that I'm doing as well as I possibly can ... I always think there's more and I think if you don't have that, you are not driven to be better.

Kelly Slater

#74. When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

John Hurt

#75. For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

Julia Garner

#76. Well, this I know: our best years are when we're working hardest and going right ahead when we can hardly see our way out.

Willa Cather

#77. If there is chemistry, and the mind and body are working as one, it's nirvana. It's like a well-written symphony or, better yet, perfect... sheet music."
"Sheet music?"
"Yeah, music between the sheets.

Ann Lister

#78. I've been really lucky in the work that I have done so far, to work with good female actors in lead roles. Lisa McCune in 'Blood Brothers' and Claudia Karvan in 'Spirited' and then Susie Porter in 'Sisters of War.' They've been working, and they've got good lives around them as well.

Sarah Snook

#79. So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.

Billy Sherwood

#80. A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

William Morris

#81. Whether I'm working a street corner or a market stall, well, that's none of their business unless they're buying. The anonymity is comfortable, like going around draped in magic, hidden from view.

Cat Hellisen

#82. You can't tell me what we're doing right now is not working. The perception is, well, it's not. I don't deal in perception. I want to deal in reality. The reality of the matter is that the percentage of guys who are taking has gone way down.

Tom Glavine

#83. Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

Barack Obama

#84. If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

Brian Helgeland

#85. In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.

Andy Serkis

#86. Abraham Maslow, the man who gave us Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, once said: "The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Brad Hams

#87. You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

George Eliot

#88. Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

Andrea Barrett

#89. Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

Bernie Krause

#90. Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals ... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

Cyndi Lauper

#91. The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

Samuel Wilson

#92. Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad.

Jahangir Khan

#93. Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

James Nicoll

#94. I want to pay my mortgage and go on vacation, so I love working. I want to be able to do independent projects as well, and being on a successful TV show allows you to do some other things.

Spencer Grammer

#95. I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

Judith Krantz

#96. The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.

William Monahan

#97. My brain is already scrambled enough.""Cracked," I said, not thinking.
"Yeah." Moses scowled.
"Well, it's working for you." I turned and looked at my walls. "Cracks and all. In fact, if your brain wasn't cracked, none of the brilliance could spill out. Do you realize that?

Amy Harmon

#98. I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

James Belushi

#99. My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.

Hayley Mills

#100. You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Douglas Conant

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