Working Quotes

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and (Apple CEO Steve) Jobs working together. The thought of this menage a trois is absolutely hilarious.

I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.

By working together to focus on our national priorities today we can ensure that the state of our union is strong for the future.

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

Work? It’s just serious play.

Freelance isn't for everyone - you've got to be aggressive and enjoy working alone. But you could make more money than you ever imagined.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.

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

Freedom for the working class!

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

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

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

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.

You have to understand that a lot of the working class is not white.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.

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

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

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

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.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.