Work Against Quotes

43 quotes by 38 authors

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because… — Barry Hannah
As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny… — Marvin Hamlisch
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files… — Yusef Komunyakaa
Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible. — Morgan Freeman
Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you. — Ellie Goulding
I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how… — Junot Diaz
It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it… — Guy Pearce
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself. — Henry Rollins
Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if… — Julia Cameron
All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing… — Bell Hooks
...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If… — Eric Metaxas
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to… — George R. R. Martin
Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you — George R. R. Martin
Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years… — Alexander Cockburn
The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them… — Vladimir Putin
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against. — Ang Lee
Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too big in an… — Stacy London
Those who work against the success of others, Never last long in the path of success. — Terry Mark

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