Working It Quotes

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

The land belongs to the people who work it.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying.

Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.

Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after we do it.

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn’t worked. And a lot of really smart, wealthy people know that. And they are saying, hey, we need to do more to make the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle class.

I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.

It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!

If it works, it's true.

It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

Golf isn't supposed to be work. It's to have fun.

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

You can't just do cheap CGI and think that's going to work. It doesn't.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

Work? It’s just serious play.

If it works, it's out of date.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

I just like to be in the now. And kind of reporting on what it is that I see, feel and that's really reflective of the times that I'm in, we're in and I think with the latest works, it's still evident that we're going through a lot of the same things.

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

I'm wearing pajamas, every day, at work. It's the best thing, ever!

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.