Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Ayn Rand

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

Carl Sandburg

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Cara Castronuova

I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.

Cloris Leachman

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

Elizabeth I

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

B. C. Forbes

The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.

B. C. Forbes

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

B. C. Forbes

J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.

B. C. Forbes

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

B. C. Forbes

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

Asafa Powell

I am trying to attend every training session and do all of my workouts.

Ashlee Simpson

I shake my booty all the time! It's the best workout!

Ashleigh Brilliant

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

Armand Hammer

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Natalie du Toit

My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.

Ezekiel Emanuel

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Ewan McGregor

I've never been one who agonizes over my work.

Elizabeth McGovern

I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.

Rod Stewart

I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.

Cary Fukunaga

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

Drew Barrymore

Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.

Duane Michals

I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.

Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Todd Haynes

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

Tammy Blanchard

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

Sarah Hall

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

Alex Steffen

There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.