Quotes of: Finished-work Keyword

I've never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness gives way to a certain form of humility that, after you get over yourself, feels liberating. I started to believe that the un...

Dee Williams

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse a...

Ernest Hemingway

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Haruki Murakami

People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice when it happens. But when you've invested so much time and your fingers have pushed through all that paper and yo...

Julia L. Roberts

If there's one lesson I can pass along to people in situations like mine, it's that the best way to see a program through -- and it took me a long time to learn this -- is simply to accept the help, cooperate, and let others do what they think is wor...

Joe Sutter

When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty an...

Joan Didion

Capt. Keith Mallory: And what about the two thousand men on Kheros? Corporal Miller: I don't know the man on Kheros! But I do know the man on Navarone! Col. Andrea Stavros: Mr. Miller, the man was finished when he fell. Corporal Miller: [angry] That'...

The Guns of Navarone

Yvette: [to Louis] Are you not hungry, sir? Lestat: Aux contraire, mon cher, he could eat the whole colony. [starts to laugh] Louis: [as Yvette starts to pick up Louis's plate, he grabs her arm and looks at the veins in her neck] I'll finish it, Yvet...

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Grace: [regarding Lydia] Was she born like that? Mrs. Mills: Beg your pardon, ma'am? Grace: The girl. Was she born a mute? Mrs. Mills: No. [looks uncomfortable] Mrs. Mills: I think I've finished here, ma'am. If you'll excuse me, I think I'll go and s...

The Others

General Hummel: I guess you haven't completely taken care of the rat problem, Captain. Captain Hendrix: No, sir. General Hummel: Well, there are two dead men here who strongly suggest that you go finish the job. Captain Hendrix: Yes, sir. [realizing ...

The Rock

[Gorgo waking up from Leonidas stroking her back] Queen Gorgo: Your lips can finish what your fingers have started... or has the Oracle robbed you of your desire as well? King Leonidas: It would take more than the words than a drunken adolescent girl...

300

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only ...

Anthony de Mello

Work is half of health.

Swedish

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

William Ernest Hocking

I don’t work out, but I do work in, which requires more focus and stillness.


Sleepwalking is restercise

Your job is not to be a fire killer. Your job is to prevent fires.

Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less

You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.

The Working Mom Manifesto

I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.

Anne Wojcicki

In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

Sally Field

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.

Hard Lines