Quotes of: Working-people Keyword

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

Tracey Emin

When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.

Theophilus London

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Tom Shadyac

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

Umberto Eco

People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.

Uday Kiran

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

Zooey Deschanel

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

Ziggy Marley

The reason why the world is a difficult place to live in, is due to the fact that people are not interested in people. Nobody is truly interested in anybody; they are only interested in the parts that they think will be pleasurable and comfortable fo...

C. JoyBell C.

Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear this sort of rhetoric from Labour, rather than the Tor...

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

No, I mean, this is a problem that most people have. A problem of the human condition. We get ahold of some kind of shorthand in understanding people, and we think it works, and we use it to assess, categorize, and then, very often, dismiss people. I...

A Corpse's Nightmare

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense ...

Thomas Howes

I’ve always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he’s able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people....

Lee Iacocca

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

If we lose those people who come to the United States and get a PhD in computer engineering for example and they can't get a visa to stay in the United States, they are sent home, not only do we lose those people working here, but we lose the opportu...

Jerry Moran

I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment of what they do. If it's enormous pressure, and people feel that their lives are at stake, then it's agony. So I try to pick projects wher...

Alan Arkin

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.

Ending Syria's Occupation Of Lebanon: The U.S. Role

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perc...

Sara Blakely

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Thomas Perez

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living...

Bill Dixon