Work Quotes (5258)

Quotes and citations about work

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success... view

By: Roy Wilkins

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America... view

By: David Wilkerson

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them... view

By: Lenny Wilkens

When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys... view

By: Jason Wiles

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day... view

By: Andrew Wiles

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day... view

By: Thornton Wilder

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting... view

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell... view

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original... view

By: Billy Wilder

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon... view

By: Billy Wilder

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy... view

By: Olivia Wilde

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself... view

By: Olivia Wilde

I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself... view

By: Olivia Wilde

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it... view

By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note... view

By: Dianne Wiest

The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula... view

By: Dianne Wiest

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else... view

By: Elie Wiesel

Man blindly works the will of fate... view

By: Christoph Martin Wieland

Annika has the type of game I want to work on. She's just so consistent. Hopefully I'll be like that one day... view

By: Michelle Wie

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief... view

By: Richard Widmark

Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set.. view

By: Richard Widmark

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning... view

By: Richard Widmark

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up... view

By: Richard Widmark

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform... view

By: Sue Wicks

You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend... view

By: Sue Wicks

More Americans are working today than at any time in history... view

By: Roger Wicker

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people... view

By: Roger Wicker

Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities... view

By: Roger Wicker

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information... view

By: Roger Wicker

Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda... view

By: Roger Wicker

My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms... view

By: Benjamin Whorf

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it... view

By: Benjamin Whorf

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion... view

By: Eli Whitney

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars... view

By: Walt Whitman

I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California... view

By: Meg Whitman

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it... view

By: Meg Whitman