Working It Quotes
527 quotes by 478 authors
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its…
— Alice Bailey
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We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a…
— Pat Conroy
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I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple…
— Vanessa Carlton
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If I had to, I would ask first of all: why do things move in your work? It’s the most simple, and also the most…
— Jean Tinguely
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For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good…
— Justin Guarini
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You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that you…
— Gail Carson Levine
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I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me in Tokyo. The time difference…
— David Sedaris
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Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the…
— Billy Wilder
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The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what…
— Gabe Newell
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It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not…
— Susan Blackmore
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Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the…
— Michelangelo
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Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder…
— Richard Preston
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We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab…
— Larry Crabb
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Go build it. If you really believe in something, you should just build it. If you love it, it won’t feel like work. It’s okay…
— Kevin Rose
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Whatever I decide will not work. Â It's what people want that will work. Â So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or…
— Jacque Fresco
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The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status…
— Richard Rohr
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