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I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

John Keats

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men who are, after all, imperfect instruments working for their fulfillment.

Mahatma Gandhi

The world we see, that seems so insane, is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Once you start a working on something don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect, and the love, and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers our sisters our children our cousins our friends our co-workers and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like although that was part of it. Primarily it was how it worked. To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something chew it up not just quickly swallow it.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work " because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Amidst all the clutter beyond all the obstacles aside from all the static are the goals set. Put your head down do the best job possible let the flak pass and work towards those goals.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

To work hard to live hard to die hard and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Carl Sandburg

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Helen Keller

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

I'm having fun because I don't take it (life) seriously - the only things I care about are my family friends work and my lady Sally. Philosophers for a long time have said 'why are we here?' - I'm here for the entertainment. If you're born in the world you're given a ticket to the freak show, if you're born in America you get a front row seat.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Individuality is founded in feeling, and the recesses of feeling the darker blinder strata of character are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making and directly perceive how events happen and how work is actually done.

Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.

Every man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Our environment the world in which we live and work is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers the best of them in doubt and misery the most in plodding hesitation doing as well as they can what practical work lies at hand.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

George W. Bush

For his heart was in his work and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature body and soul and chiefly of the soul.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles but producing them. They live by work not trade.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and demonstrations for impressions.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah sure I'm still optimistic I mean I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

As for me prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I still work out on a daily basis.

Deprived of meaningful work men and women lose their reason for existence, they go stark raving mad.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age I do not want to give it up, I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

I work to stay alive.

The bottom line is when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities not only are they many times more productive they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did why in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Well all comedy starts with anger. You get angry and its never for a good reason right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art a scientific theory a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

As president Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations but he also raised taxes when necessary.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self and, at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

We work to become not to acquire.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up enabling people.

Milton Friedman

I think that in itself if you're a true golfer you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either so it worked out well.

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

Work while you work play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

When a great many people are unable to find work unemployment results.

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us but we can do this. Together we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Thomas Jefferson once said 'We should never judge a president by his age only by his works.' And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good you have to practice practice practice. If you don't love something then don't do it.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

The better a work is the more it attracts criticism, it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

The price of success is hard work dedication to the job at hand and the determination that whether we win or lose we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Our works whatever they may be derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset, perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone, the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Over and over again and again until I make you see that the past no longer works. I challenge you and tempt you every day with your past so that you may see that the past is the ultimate delusion.

You have to feel confident. If you don't then you're going to be hesitant and defensive and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

Younger guys now are all working out and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it you're going to be left behind.

If the audience is made to do not enough work they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

What I've discovered is that in art as in music there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

For the progress of humanity work alone is not adequate but the work should be associated with love compassion right conduct truthfulness and sympathy. Without the above qualities selfless service cannot be performed.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Ford? There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for 'Hamlet' they've worked out

In my heart I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

E. O. Wilson

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

If you believe in what you are doing then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films the people that feel they know me they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

Angelina Jolie

The man who builds a factory builds a temple that the man who works there worships there and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

What exactly is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer anywhere that is equipped with a device called a 'modem' can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Life starts with Love. The sweetness of love coming out of life is the great and unique principle that is at the source of everything. You can put this love in any field of work.

Truth is what works.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

I take the work seriously just not myself in it.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me he can work through anyone.

I had a stick of CareFree gum but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble but as soon as the gum lost its flavor I was back to pondering my mortality.

If God can work through me he can work through anyone.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other I usually chose the beautiful.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation, not so much because of any threat from without but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Living is like working out a long addition sum and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

I do not allot work to this person or that or consult anyone for ideas and suggestions.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.

Richard Bach

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

In scientific work those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men.

You use a glass mirror to see your face, you use works of art to see your soul.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

As a cure for worrying work is better than whiskey.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

Ansel Adams

I feel very lucky because of my parents, and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

Kin Hubbard

He has achieved success who has worked well laughed often and loved much.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions but to use the ordinary ones and in working them up into poetry to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state and this state is constant.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there you can move mountains.

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

H. P. Lovecraft

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because in an economy like this the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your place.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it you are lost.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President I never will.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Logic works metaphysics contemplates.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works even if it be against his will.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead in fact without one.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are served by the same cable loop and the cable loop was affected by equipment failures. But the cable itself is in good working order.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

We didn't play very well and we couldn't make shots. We didn't execute and we couldn't match their energy or their effort. They outworked us tonight.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what without this book he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Representation of the world like the world itself is the work of men, they describe it from their own point of view which they confuse with the absolute truth.

In the past I had workaholic issues.

Work is of two kinds: first altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter, second telling other people to do so.

Bertrand Russell

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

Help me Lord to escape from the disgrace. I have worked my Karma, I have lived out my sentence .

If you always put limit on everything you do physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus and you must not stay there you must go beyond them.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo good. If there is ferment so much the better. If there is restlessness I am pleased. Then let there be ideas and hard thought and hard work. If man feels small let man make himself bigger.

The Cold War isn't thawing, it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping, it is as always plotting scheming working fighting.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

My work is about my life and what I want to do with it.

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work and a lot of it. And when a job is finished relax and have fun.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.

To make democracy work we must be a notion of participants not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

I never did anything by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident, they came by work.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

If I don't feel confident about my body I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up motivating yourself and just doing it.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game an hour may be a year a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought system planning intelligence and honest purpose as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

I put my heart and my soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond, that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people working really hard and pleasing people which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

Steve Martin

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence, or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work but by worry frustration and resentment.

The weirder you're going to behave the more normal you should look. It works in reverse too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and given the opportunity women work iniquity.

Buddha

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

As I speak to you today government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s before we had any government. It worked rather well and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Ron Paul

We are at our very best and we are happiest when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful so worthwhile.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance self-denial hard work sacrifice dedication and respect for authority.

If you want to build a ship don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose but their chains workers of the world unite.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top but should get you pretty near.

Today's misery is real unemployment home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

Mitt Romney

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

As far as service goes it can take the form of a million things. To do service you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work a great head.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid complete and classic as the works of museums.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

When you play play hard, when you work don't play at all.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems give me work give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

So did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

If something is irrational that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Do not be idle work utter God

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business the business of building entertainment.

The reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are served by the same cable loop and the cable loop was affected by equipment failures ... But the cable itself is in good working order.

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say if you look at the body of his work the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking and worrying and sweating for them.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company you own your career!

Work alone is noble.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis it's still about the work.

I really don't give it that much thought. A lot of people talk about it and they saw how difficult it is to do. I just go out there and I work hard.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

No matter how vast how total the failure of man here on earth the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that but man's front embraces the whole universe.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels so I lived out of the back of my truck under a hard shell.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Thinking is the hardest work there is which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Good works never languish for want of funds, the Lord will come to their rescue. Only it may take some time, do not lose heart... You should not collect money in devious ways. Help should come from pious hearts from well-earned money from persons who know and appreciate the purpose for which they give. That is why I oppose all benefit shows where you tempt people with a dance or a drama or a film and collect money for your pet plan.

Sai Baba

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

We do not think the Boeing IAM workers will strike when their contract expires on Sept. 2.

It took a lot of blood sweat and tears to get to where we are today but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

In the aftermath of September 11 and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

I'm working and everything's fine.

I think like any marriage especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you want to try even harder to make it work.

When nature has work to be done she creates a genius to do it.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed he can 'earn' more in that single day while cleaning out his desk than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today in the executive suite the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

Be true to your work your word and your friend.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Whoever we play it's going to be tough because it's two great teams. We just have to make sure we do our homework and go out there and try to execute.

Kobe Bryant

If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old, to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant, to attain in fact clear and demonstrative know

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

James Arthur Baldwin

From as long as literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns word jokes I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

When you're young you look at television and think there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared for after all we have nothing to lose.

George Orwell

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin

(Prime Minister Joseph) Chamberlain loves the working man - he loves to see him work

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

Lady Gaga

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

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