Quotations
'There's a lot of mathematics in music. It's all in groups of eight, mate, y'know. The one thing that I may have in common with John is that the subject matter I do know, the driving part of my life, my work life, there's a point where structure and scaffolding is left behind and intuition takes over. That's the difference between John and the next 100 mathematicians. He's fully prepared to leave the scaffolding behind and get into the ether of the equation and find the answer quicker. The bane of his existence, however, is finding the proof.'
Russell Crowe
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
James H Douglas
People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to 'look forward to' - to work for and hope for.
Maxwell Maltz
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.
Ruth First
Working at the United Nations perhaps ironically can make it quite hard to live a normal life and work normal hours.
Pauline Frederick
Marriage takes work, but so does living alone. One of the things you have to work at is to have enough human resources and to plan ahead.
Barbara Feldon
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
Alan Rickman
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
Bill Hirst
Tus Maith Leath na Oibre. Gaelic saying Translates as 'A good start is half the work'
Anonymous
I was good at religious studies. Part of the coursework was meditation. We spent an hour a week with our eyes closed.
Elizabeth Jagger
"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."
Alistair Cooke
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
Norman Tebbit
I'm looking forward to getting back to EastEnders and working with everyone who has supported me throughout my time off.
Michelle Ryan
We need to work harder to ensure children in London are protected from the dangers of alcohol and are able to make the right life choices at a young age. The Mayor has failed to do this - I will make it a priority.
Boris Johnson
I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
Roman Polanski
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits
Napoleon Bonaparte
I saw Dave's suit of armour a while back and told him I'd always fancied one of those. He said he'd give it to me as a bonus if I kept Wigan in the Premiership this season... then he turned up at the training ground and presented it to me saying he was so certain of us staying up he was giving me my bonus early - but if this run carries on I might have to see if I can wear it to work!
Paul Jewell
Hard work is one of the most rewarding things out there that you can do.
Harry Golden
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
Mother Teresa
Speech is a double edged sword indeed, just ask the monkeys and realise that if they were to speak, then they would have to work!
Kenneth Graham
His scripts are always complete when you start working on them. [on Alexander Payne]
Kathy Bates
We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.
Dave Foreman
I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
Tim Roth
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing
If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility [on work-life balance]
Jack Welch
'I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.'
Victoria Beckham
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
Paul Hogan
I am ready to make the decisions for people and to work with other people to make this country the great country it is at all times. [God help us all]
Gordon Brown
If acting didn't work out for me, I could be a professional trampolinist.
Reese Witherspoon
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
Martin Gardner
When I was a young man I observed than nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work
George Bernard Shaw
It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.
Faith Ford
He was great. Just a goof ball. I mean that in the best sense of the word. He's just a fun [guy], but we had a blast. [on working with Johnny Depp]
Ray Liotta
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
Marie Dressler
I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.
Peter Gay
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
Editing a philosophy dictionary is jolly hard work!
Edward Craig
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon Hill
In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
Thomas Carlyle
If it's not working out I'll walk immediately - I'll be one of the first chairmen to sack himself!
Niall Quinn
Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
Barbara Eden
It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
E F Schumacher
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
Bette Davis
I'm going to give a workshop on keeping a weblog, talk about how to set it up and all that stuff. It should be fun
Will Wheaton
I can't live without salt and vinegar crisps. I used to eat loads of crisps when I was younger but I never went to the gym. Nowadays I still eat tons but I work out after!
Heidi Range
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