Quotes of: Working-people Keyword

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Tony Abbott

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.

Tommy Lee Jones

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

Tobias Wolff

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

Todd Young

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

William Feather

Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.

Zhang Ziyi

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

Annie Lennox

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly ...

China: Portrait of a People

Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on trains knows they have personalities, they're like people. They have their own mysteries.

The Dead Isle

The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear nametags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.

Death Note: Another Note

When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a ...

Ian Mckellen

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around o...

Theodor Herzl

The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomi...

Hiroshima Notes

People say the early bird catches the worm. And it’s true! That’s why I work online in the middle of the night—to catch all the worms halfway across the world.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

If the world were coming to an end tomorrow, I’d probably call in sick to work.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at al...

The Pilgrimage

Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it's show time and you're at yo...

Robin S. Sharma

Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table—so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.

The Flip Manifesto

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow.

Sara Sheridan

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doi...

Mark Zuckerberg

I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre and 'Red Road.' But over here you have the beach and the mountains and the climate. A lot of people diss L.A. as being all tinsel town, fake...

Tony Curran