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
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