Works Quotes

• The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.

  

  Socrates
  • Desire
  • Artist
  • Imitating

• Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs the basics, but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.

  

  Barbara Damrosch
  • Gardener
  • Erudition
  • Leran

• While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Find
  • Copy
  • George Bernard Shaw

• There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Nobleness

• I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Believe
  • Creator
  • Copyright

• What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Technology
  • Works

• Seth hustled over. “What’s the password?” “Passwords are for sissies,” Warren’s muffled voice responded. “Works for me,” Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Responded
  • Sissies
  • Password

• Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Sales
  • Crap
  • Trigger

• I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.

  

  Will Barnet
  • Dark
  • Working
  • Paint

• She was a good person. She didn’t deserve to die. I don’t think it works that way.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Deserve
  • Works
  • Good Person

• I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour, that there are nights when the sky is so clear I stand obnoxious underneath it begging for the stars to shoot at me just so I can feel at Home.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Sky
  • Nights
  • Sour

• Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Christianity
  • Works
  • Infidelity

• Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Man
  • Able
  • Works

• Satan works through human agents.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Human
  • Satan
  • Agents

• The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works.

  

  William Gouge
  • Works
  • Preached
  • Purely

• When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Study
  • Feel
  • Philosophical

• In general, there is no way to explain what an individual photon does, and we have good reasons to believe that this is not just our ignorance, but that this fundamental role of probability is a basic feature of how the universe works.

  

  Anton Zeilinger
  • Universe
  • Works
  • Photon

• Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

  

  Aristotle
  • God
  • Live
  • Being

• Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Christ
  • Works
  • Righteousness

• What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Works
  • Throat
  • Angle

• Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Beautiful
  • Works
  • Ornament

• Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Idea
  • Works
  • Develops

• It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Fact
  • Works
  • Faults

• We're confident we can get a rate that works in the 2006 budget.

  

  F. Thomson Leighton
  • Works
  • Confident
  • Budget

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