Women want mediocre men and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.

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

To live well is to work well to show a good activity.

It is not wealth one asks for but just enough to preserve one's dignity to work unhampered to be generous frank and independent.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another but let him work diligently and build one for himself thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest, the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Now we're in the final stages. There's a lot of (due diligence) work to be done in the next 120 days but it feels good to get everybody on board.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort and effort means work.

The great work must inevitably be obscure except to the very few to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

Perhaps we were a little too active in the race worked a little too much ... Maybe the guys are tired.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard had the right values took some risks that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast going to work coming home petting the dog watching TV kissing the kids and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

Housework if you do it right will kill you.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour she can hurt you.

A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn

Winners take time to relish their work knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Every man should have laws of his own I should think, commandments of his own for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking spiritual energy is being wasted.

Today we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house the way industry works.

Our species needs and deserves a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do the draughts are open and my chimney draws and I am happy.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not as popularly supposed alcoholism, it's egotism.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself and so masters them.

In the battle of existence Talent is the punch, Tact is the clever footwork.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear but I spend all my money on my show.

Work as though you would live forever and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

No theory is good unless it permits not rest but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work, and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Man's desires and pitfalls are placed there so that I may do My work. When you give up totally then the temptations will fade. I will never give up on you. Every slip will become harder and harder to bear and less easy to remedy.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah no I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch which is phenomenal. It works like magic.

Desire destroys devotion, anger destroys wisdom, greed destroys work - hence these bad qualities must be sacrificed. With good and sweet words, keeping desires under check and control (for ultimate removal) one should start on the path of sacrifice.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week the minimum wage family leave health insurance Social Security Medicare retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end and if it is I am the only one who can win it.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it but that's not the way to produce good work.

Work is much more fun than fun.

Reform is not pleasant but grievous, no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work how much less a nation.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

You do the work and you want people to see it, but um while I'm doing the work the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately I don't I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government to protect liberty - not to run your personal life not to run the economy and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

Babies don't need a vacation but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'

Few of us get anything without working for it.

See winners embrace hard work.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

Before I was famous when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge everything was moving in slow motion.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst a fever a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes so are men consumed by the flames of passions and their deeds and works fall and perish.

Someday I suspect when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam my works may be adequately assessed.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it to kill it to rid it of its soul to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Not only is women's work never done the definition keeps changing.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

My mother always called me an ugly weed so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent hardworking honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then we elected them.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

With Malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.

Like every man of sense and good feeling I abominate work.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation invisible and all-powerful, one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

You get people from all walks of life here -- who work in domestic service.

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards but that's not the case. Sure my parents were generous, I got a nice car at 16 but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

To all the cynics I'm sorry for you ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.

If you work hard and play by the rules this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

I had my heart set on three things: One the choral office, two the habit, and community life. We spend a lot of time together. We work together eat together pray together

Only when the four work together do you get the light.

Work disinterestedly. Content to do one's duty as best as one can.

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over He would have put diamonds on the floor.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world Russia is Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.

God was satisfied with his own work and that is fatal.

I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

If you have the inclination to do good work God will give you the time to do good things.

When you discover your mission you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

I'd go to like six different schools in one year. We were on welfare and my mom never ever worked.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

Our nation is too different too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work a society work a civilization work.

Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. / Ford gave a loud very hollow laugh. / 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money the poor because they had much.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

Just as man can't exist without his body so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality to think to work and keep the results which means: the right of property.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell

Let us work without theorizing tis the only way to make life endurable.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

I dropped out of NYU moved out of my parent's house got my own place and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

Over the last couple of years I've really worked toward balancing my life out more having a little bit more time with friends family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside so be it.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Begin - to begin is half the work let half still remain, again begin this and thou wilt have finished.

There is sweet water inside a tender coconut. Who poured the water inside the coconut? Was it the work of any man? No. Only the Divine can do such a thing.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.

That saying about how you always kill the thing you love well it works both ways.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Inspiration exists but it has to find us working.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work the rest willing to let them.

I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder the means by which we are translated?

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

If you're not willing to work hard let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads, very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart yet both actively working together.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work unemployment results.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself just the fact that I was breathing.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

Four things for success: work and pray think and believe.

I don't work at being ordinary.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America, it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism' but what else can one call it?

The major networks the cable networks they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well c'mon that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

The people that make this country work the people who pay on their mortgages the people getting up and going to work striving in this recession to not participate in it they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

The artist is nothing without the gift but the gift is nothing without work.

There is a sense that things if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done do work out.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

My theory on housework is if the item doesn't multiply smell catch fire or block the refrigerator door let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

I mean it's tough to make the jump ... So you know the person's going to be faced with a lot of challenges some ups and some downs...I can't speak on behalf of other players but I can only speak on behalf of myself. And in that situation you know it was best for me to skip college and go straight to the pros. It worked out well.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand however is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands it also seldom works properly.

It's not the work which kills people it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

O Lord take my hands and let them work incessantly for Thee.

Your basic guy is into a straight-ahead bottom-line kind of thought process that does not work nearly as well with the infinitely subtle complexities of human relationships as it does with calculating how much gravel is needed to cover a given driveway.

Duty is God, Work is worship. Even the tiniest work is a flower placed at the Feet of God.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked earned money and was independent at 18.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

To put it bluntly I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone love them with all your soul. When you go to work work your ass off. When you hate someone hate them until it hurts.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke drink or do drugs and I'm not married that leaves a lot of time for my work.

I'm just doing what I need to. When the game's on the line they put the ball in my hands and we worked on getting in the position where I could deliver.

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic and that's not true because I only drink when I work and I'm a workaholic.

Any man today who returns from work sinks into a chair and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality and with greater ease when each man works at a single occupation in accordance with his natural gifts and at the right moment without meddling with anything else.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius of erudition and of science.

I think what made it difficult for people to get and still makes it difficult for people to get is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

If people take anything from my music it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not to be endured with patient resignation.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it.

People do not attract that which they want but that which they are. (To put it another way: When you stop working on what it is you're trying to get and start working on YOU only then will you get what it is you want.)

He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

If people really liked to work we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted sexually oriented and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

We are a much better team right now. We are playing really well and executing very well. We are moving the ball and defensively we are working hard hustling and closing out the shots.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

When I get up and work out I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly who invests in them but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

A man willing to work and unable to find work is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Fires can't be made with dead embers nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom and when you've got them worked out you can debate a little before you vote.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled and thanks to money and fame I didn't have to go far to find them.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour, riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

We want to answer this classical question 'who am I'? So I think that most of our works are for art or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it, often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely at an angle.

Success is the result of perfection hard work learning from failure loyalty and persistence.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

This Sunday School has been of help to me greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life and I can ask no better things for you than that you and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work it's not strange it's just Gaga.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart live for it die for it and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him family was everything. We could disagree inside the house but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor he looked sideways but said okay.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander to do.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

I have to work really hard eight shows a week to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play and it's a - knock wood - hit the checks come in for many years.

Life is too short to work so hard.

[He appreciated its] compounded vulgarity ... It had that Peter Finch in 'Network ' 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore' quality.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint and he understands ours then we can sit down and work out our differences.

If you go to work on your goals your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Nothing is void of God his work is everywhere his full of himself.

The quality of your work in the long run is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

It's true hard work never killed anybody but I figure why take the chance?

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working I can make a change.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners and that's really hard work.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles but by producing them. They don't live by trade but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions, and take that of laborers Unions.

At 35 I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also I think you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Every secret of a writer's soul every experience of his life every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

I know not sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

The harder you work the harder it is to surrender.

Will it and set to work briskly.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

If you're trying to achieve there will be roadblocks. I've had them, everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides I can't die now - I'm booked.

Some of you may be wondering Sai Baba

The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women and millions like them across America to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket I said 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly what we're going to do.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson FDR and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But you know but when it comes to the economy we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrong.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Live your life do your work then take your hat.

The finest works of art are precious among other reasons because they make it possible for us to know if only imperfectly and for a little while what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People don't understand that when I grew up I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic and that's been what has gotten me this far.

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

When the best leader's work is done the people say 'We did it ourselves.'

My work and my family are very important to me.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence although not a priori yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes it was 29 years.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

dont read my diary when im gone ok im going to work now when you wake up please read my diary look through my things and figure me out

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically it could be re-created on a neural network but that would be very difficult as it would require all one's memories.

The author in his work must be like God in the Universe present everywhere and visible nowhere.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written, one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C being a point directly in between are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them and have never regretted it.

Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend the more does competition extend among the workers the more do their wages shrink together.

While the work or play is on it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands it wouldn't be ours anymore.

Whatever happened to the good ole days when children worked in factories?

Third we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade there will be unmistakable consequences.

There are two great forces. God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

On Sundays when I speak I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.