Working Quotes
7856 Working quotes by 5240 unique authors
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Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.
— Philip J. Davis
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
— Ramana Maharshi
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I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All…
— Harvey Pekar
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working…
— Manuel Puig
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There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years.…
— Jay Rockefeller
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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
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God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that…
— J I Packer
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We cannot convince a man to believe any more than we can raise the dead. Such things are the work of God's Spirit. Men are…
— Paul Washer
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Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God’s hand, from the greatest planet…
— J C Ryle
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I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
— Ridley Scott
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Yeah, we're working on [Blade Runner 2] right now - that will happen sooner or later.
— Ridley Scott
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When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth…
— Gerda Lerner
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I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box…
— Eve Arnold
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The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
— Jim Clyburn
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Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of…
— Pema Chodron
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Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink…
— Hugh Nibley
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I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated…
— Pierre Omidyar
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My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
— Elfriede Jelinek
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There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
— Dorothy Day
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The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a…
— Thomas Merton
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There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
— Brad Meltzer
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Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care *most* about, but it's really the melody…
— Joe Satriani
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What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood
— Martin Kippenberger
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Look, if you can indulge in your passion, life will be far more interesting than if you're just working. You'll work harder at it, and you'll…
— Richard Branson
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