They Work Quotes
267 quotes by 243 authors
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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good…
— James Cash Penney
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Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment…
— Mary Pipher
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[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
— Adam Baldwin
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What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not…
— Matthew Henry
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Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It's simple - we don't do anything. I think…
— George Burns
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Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness…
— Pema Chodron
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By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they…
— Carl Honore
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I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work.…
— Fatima Siad
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Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses.
— Zig Ziglar
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The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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A fellow must know where he wants to go, if he is going to get anywhere. It is so easy just to drift along. Some…
— William C. Menninger
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If you go and watch the way the primitive tribes live, you will know what work is in relation to celebration. They work the whole…
— Rajneesh
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You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools - and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are…
— Clint Eastwood
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Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.
— Michael Schudson
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Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities,…
— Noam Chomsky
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Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley...…
— Roger Ebert
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It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials…
— Ben Okri
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In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them to figure out…
— Wolfgang Gullich
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