Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Quotes about working page 22
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Breaks
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
Source: "Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence
Context: Freedom has nothing to do with lack of training; it can only be the product of training. You're not free to move unless you've learned to walk, and not free to play the piano unless you practise. Nobody is capable of free speech unless he knows how to use the language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to be learned and worked at.
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1 July 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Context: Write me at the Hotel Quintana, Pamplona, Spain. Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 524
As quoted in ...
Jason Fried software entrepreneur
Source: Rework
“Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
-Carmen's grandmother”
Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
Caesar Flickerman and Peeta Mellark, p. 138
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Context: "So, here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can‘t turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.
"I don't think it‘s going to work out. Winning... won‘t help in my case," says Peeta.
"Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because... because... she came here with me."
“Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
Carl Sagan book Cosmos
42 min 33 sec
Variant: A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Persistence of Memory [Episode 11]
Context: What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Source: Personal Success
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Be honest.
Be kind.
Be honorable.
Work hard.
And always be awesome.”
Wil Wheaton (1972) American actor and writer
“She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot
Source: The Marriage Plot
Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian
Quoted in The Algonquin Wits, (1968) by R E Drennan, p. 5
“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist
Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“We are not quite novels.
We are not quite short stories.
In the end, we are collected works.”
Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) English children's writer and illustrator
Source: Merry Christmas, Peter Rabbit!
“Men might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1850s, West India Emancipation (1857)
Context: Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. [... ] Men might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others.
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary
Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year
“Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Source: City of Bones
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
“I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.”
Jonathan Carroll (1949) novelist, short story writer
“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967), p. 26
Source: The Medium is the Massage
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, (1963)
Source: I Have A Dream
“The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea
Source: Gift from the Sea
“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.”
Anne Tyler book Back When We Were Grownups
Source: Back When We Were Grownups
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer
Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
“It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.”
Isaac Asimov book Foundation
Variant: It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
Source: Foundation
“I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother
“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
“Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from”
Rolf Potts (1970) American writer
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
“I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Self-Reliance
“There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.”
Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist
Source: Simply Magic
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
