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Working Quotes

The only time I ever get choked is when I’m at Make-A-Wish headquarters, because you’re talking and working with people who share the same ideals.

– John Cena

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

– John Kenneth Galbraith

I think that sleep and work are very closely related – not because you can work while you’re sleeping and sleep while you’re working. That’s not really what I mean. I’m talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events.

– Jason Fried

I want to hear from my team in a way that they know they don’t have to hold back. I’ve made it clear that there are no repercussions for brutal honesty. I let them know that we want to hear about anything they feel is not working for the company.

– John Rampton

I’ve had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I’ve been very lucky that way.

– Jeff Bridges

Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.

– Isaac Hanson

I’m working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

– James Turrell

It’s always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it’s easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.

– Janine di Giovanni

I won’t do something just for the sake of working.

– Juliette Binoche

I really enjoyed working with Guy Ritchie. One, it gave me a career, and two, they’re probably a couple of the best films I’ve ever done.

– Jason Statham

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he’s chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione – she’s working harder than anyone, she’s half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn’t be there at all. It’s so unfair that Harry’s the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

– Ira Glass

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

– Joe Bastianich

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends – a few months after I started working.

– Jim Henson

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I’m working on that.

– Joss Whedon

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

– Jacqueline Novogratz

It seems to limit you; when you’re working in an office, you’re a creature in a small cell under somebody’s supervision and surveillance.

– Jack Vance

We must make working life more human.

– Goran Persson

I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don’t have to get books repaired.

– Joyce Carol Oates

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.

– Jeff Foxworthy

The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

– Jack Dorsey

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

– Jacqueline Bisset

Right now, I am doing the reverse of molecular gastronomy. I’m working with scientists to find ingredients and produce that are proven to be good for you.

– Joel Robuchon

When you’re working in public radio, you don’t have any money to advertise.

– Ira Glass

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I’m always working on new material.

– Judah Friedlander

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I’m doing a clearer representation of the thing that I’ve been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

– John Frusciante

We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism – by making sure our infrastructure is secure and by working to minimize threats as much as possible.

– Jackie Speier

I love working in New Zealand. It’s just the most beautiful country I’ve ever been to.

– Grant Bowler

I like working by myself.

– James Vincent McMorrow

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that’s why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

– John Legend

I’m a kid who grew up working hard.

– J. J. Watt

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