Working Quotes - page 3

Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. (Ernest Hemingway)
Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it. View quote
Anton LaVey
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. View quote
Samuel Gompers
Theory should be ever more demanding of our empirical resources. Simultaneously, data should be ever more demanding of the empirical relevance of theory and of the theorist's expertise in working imaginatively on problems of the world, rather than on stylized problems of the imagination. View quote
Vernon L. Smith
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. View quote
Irwin Shaw
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. View quote
Jane Austen
It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. View quote
Jim Carrey
It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen. View quote
Hugo Weaving
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. (Anatole France)
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name Almighty God But man is thy most awful instrument In working out a pure intent. View quote
William Wordsworth
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously. View quote
Bella Abzug
I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better! View quote
Laraine Day
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. View quote
Paul Dirac
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. View quote
David Bowie
To know the mighty works of God to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge. View quote
Nicolaus Copernicus
Though your experience may indicate that God has forgotten you or has left you alone, He is on your side. He is the God of grace, and He is actively working on your behalf. View quote
John Townsend
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. (Jay Gould)
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. View quote
Mark Twain
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that. View quote
Boris Becker
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. View quote
Henry Ford
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries. View quote
Abraham Lincoln