Quotes by Authors - Page 37

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.
Ivy Baker Priest
We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.
Penelope Lively
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
Alice Paul
Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Gloria Vanderbilt
You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories for all our differences turn out if we listen well to be our stories also.
Barbara Deming
Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
Penelope Lively
A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever at any time to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Communication is a continual balancing act juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world we have to act in concert with others but to survive as ourselves rather than simply as cogs in a wheel we have to act alone.
Deborah Tannen
Cooperation is an intelligent functioning of the concept of laissez faire-a thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Virginia Burden Tower
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
Germaine Greer
There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination compromise and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants by compromise neither side gets what it wants by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.
Mary Parker Follett
Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.
Rosa Parks
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.
Meridel Le Sueur
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
Kathleen Winsor
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Marge Piercy
As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn
It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work
Edith Hamilton
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it for it is a faculty of the psyche.
Germaine Greer
Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.
Ellen Gilchrist
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time the distinction between work and play dissolves.
Shakti Gawain
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain
Rita Mae Brown
There are two kinds of talents man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent you just touch it up once in a while.
Pearl Bailey
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
William Feather
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.
Louis L'Amour
Be strong! We are not here to play to dream to drift We have hard work to do and loads to lift Shun not the struggle-face it 'tis God's gift.
Maltbie D. Babcock
A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done.
Anonymous
It's not the having it's the getting.
Elizabeth Taylor
Passion is never enough neither is skill.
Toni Morrison
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
Katharine Hepburn
Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.
Lillian Carter
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
Madeleine Albright
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
Anna Jameson
If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly quietly without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath you would stop and take a breath you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
Elizabeth Prentiss
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Brontë
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life and also a personal life complete with noncompetitive leisure has never really taken hold.
Judith Martin
I have worked all my life wanted to work all my life needed to work all my life.
Liz Carpenter
What a man sows that shall he and his relations reap.
Clarissa Graves
Busy people are never busybodies.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.
Mary Ellen Chase
The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
Bonnie Blair
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Work is the province of cattle.
Dorothy Parker
For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
Betty Friedan
Work alternated with needful rest is the salvation of man or woman.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
In all human affairs there are efforts there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Lane Allen
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
Nadia Comaneci
If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.
Wes Izzard
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
Anonymous
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith
The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.
Marilyn Machlowitz
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain