Works Quotes

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
Joel Osteen

Work, Today, Sometimes

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung

Creative, Fantasy, Origin

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Against, Himself, Author

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca

Family, Rock, Steady

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.
Mitt Romney

Help, State, Create

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
Mitt Romney

Work, Power, Government

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley

Art, While, Possible

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Bill Gates

Today, Energy, House

Truth is what works.
William James

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay

Love, Great, Lives

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Paulo Coelho

Religion, Art, Science

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Work, Friend

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Peter Drucker

Time, Percent, Management

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O'Connor

Women, Theater, Flattery

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P. J. O'Rourke

Nothing, Person, Three

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Louis Nizer

Heart, Brain, Artist

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine

Good, Evil, Beginning

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
Richard P. Feynman

Work, Computers, Play

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Noam Chomsky

Time, Government, May

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Experience, Mind

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge

Blame, Praise, Reverence

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Strength, Performed

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson

Good, Design, Person

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
Lance Armstrong

Work, Design, Fitness

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
Rosa Parks

Others, Lives, Memories

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
Bill Maher

Great, Again, Punishment

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle

Two, Mothers, Hands

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal

Wish, Write, Against

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan

Real, System, Fellow

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.
Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Saying, Both

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