Working Quotes

• I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Feeling
  • Failure
  • Lessons

• I lived in Burma for a couple of summers in the '90s, working with the democratic resistance that had fled to the jungles.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Democratic
  • Resistance
  • Summers

• Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. It is about the grace that comes from working together.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Together
  • Gifts
  • Philanthropy

• Working at Google is a privilege, nothing less.

  

  Patrick Pichette
  • Working
  • Privilege
  • Google

• If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

  

  James T. Farrell
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Conditions

• We're struggling, no doubt about it. There's nothing we can sprinkle on these guys, though. There's no magic. Just keep working.

  

  Alan Trammell
  • Working
  • Struggling

• All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time tomorrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Nature
  • Alarming
  • First Law

• I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Inspired
  • Working
  • Recognition

• I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Heart
  • Way
  • Passion

• It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig in the years before 1851, that the vision first appeared of a common type of Life-Cycle, running through Mosses and Ferns to Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, linking the whole series in one scheme of reproduction and life-history.

  

  Arthur Harry Church
  • Working
  • Enthusiast
  • Life Cycle

• I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.

  

  Dallas Campbell
  • Science
  • Adventure
  • Television

• Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Working
  • Vote
  • Zombification

• Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Wrong
  • Destroy

• I’m working on various different genres. I don’t have anything specific planned, but I’m trying very hard to create lots of good songs. I have so many things left to do and so many things to start doing, so I’m excited. I feel down when I don’t work. I’m more happy while I’m working than while I’m taking a break.

  

  Jung Jin-young B1A4
  • Working
  • Create
  • Genres

• Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Working
  • Meaningful
  • Comes

• It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Working
  • Limits
  • Craftsman

• What I saw over all that time were so many deals disappearing and producers disappearing, fewer movies getting made, and it just being a bit more difficult. Working with Joel, we were in a bit of a bubble because he was always making things that were working for the studio and that kind of thing. We were always in production on something.

  

  Susan Downey
  • Movies
  • Difficult
  • Production

• Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Lyrics
  • Poems
  • Derived

• The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • Violence
  • Prayer
  • Photographer

• My part as an actor ends on the last working day. I think the success or failure only really matters to the producer or whoever it matters to. For me, when I finish the film, I'm done, and if I'm happy, that's that.

  

  Nithya Menen
  • Success
  • Working
  • Producer

• There was a woman on the radio the other day who had wrote a book about how difficult it was in meetings once you're a working mother. She was like "Oh, You have baby sick on your business suit". Most people don't have a bloody business suit!!!

  

  Alice Nutter
  • Mother
  • Working
  • Meetings

• Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Vanity
  • Sort
  • Mischief

• I think the thing that makes 'NCIS' so special is the team and the group. And there's our fearless leader, Mark Harmon. We all really enjoy working together, so it would be a shame if we weren't all there having fun together.

  

  Michael Weatherly
  • Thinking
  • Groups
  • Fearless

• Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.

  

  Kate Beaton
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Habits

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