Top 625 Worked Quotes

I worked diligently alongside our labor community to ensure that the priorities of our community were reflected in the USMCA, helping to secure strong enforcement mechanisms, protections for workers and the environment, and provisions to lower the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs.
Sharice Davids
I have progressed. I have worked a lot in front of goal, trying to keep a cool head, trying not to force things.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
What you learn from my life is, first of all, that anybody can be a leader. You can be a leader. I wasn’t born that way – I developed it, I worked at it. And also that the grassroots can organize and take on all the powers that be and defeat them. That is the lesson.
Phyllis Schlafly
I’ve worked with the same Prophet 5 Synthesizer by Sequential Circuit synthesiser for 40 years.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
It is true I’ve written songs for other performers; I’ve worked with Tricky, Tears for Fears, A1, HearSay among others.
Chesney Hawkes
As a person who worked in the abortion industry for eight years, I can say unequivocally that the most manipulation I have ever witnessed was inside the walls of the abortion clinic.
Abby Johnson
I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.
Linda Evans
The winners at the Olympics step up, bursting with pride, because everything that they have worked for and all their dedication is rewarded in a climax that I, and most golfers, will never experience.
Arnold Palmer
This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.
Pep Guardiola
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.
Noam Chomsky
That's what I love - on 'The Farewell,' we played with

That’s what I love – on ‘The Farewell,’ we played with a lot of silence and a lot of negative space, and I really worked with the composer to create those juxtapositions of like, those awkward silences and when something comes in.
Lulu Wang
Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I’ve worked on, it’s part of me.
Lionel Messi
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Ellen Wilkinson
I didn’t grow up wealthy. We couldn’t even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.
Charlie Puth
Time and time again, the players constantly surprise you and often not do at all what you expect and completely muck up your preparation, and that’s kind of the beauty of the game. It wouldn’t be as fun to the DM if everything worked out exactly how you thought it would.
Matthew Mercer
When I lived in London, I worked at the U.N. for a while as its human rights and refugees officer. I have two degrees, and my second was in radio. I was a programmer and news reporter in Canada. My CV looks bananas.
Hannah Simone
I am linked with Jose because we worked together, but I don’t go out of my way to talk about it. We are ‘different people, have ‘different ‘personalities and different views on the game.
Andre Villas-Boas
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child – one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.
Dorothy Allison
I’ve always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
Gerard Way
My mom worked as a manager at a high-end fashion place, so she was always a pretty stylish woman.
Jimmy O. Yang
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
Al Lewis
One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.
Patrick Collison
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father’s business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
Aaron Klug
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
Elon Musk
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn’t need a gun, you’d better take one along that worked.
Raymond Chandler
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
Dan Rather
I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.
Trey Anastasio
There’s an old-school gatekeeper mentality to some of the RPG community: ‘It’s unfair that somebody out there can make money on something that I worked so hard to make for free for my friends.’
Matthew Mercer
What’s funny is that by the time everyone plays the game – you know, we finish it, and then it takes a long time to make copies and ship it and get on the shelves – we probably haven’t worked on it for a month, two months. So, we’ve already taken our break, and then we’re on to the next thing.
Todd Howard
I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.
Christopher Parker
During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things ‘off message’ from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn’t always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.
Dee Dee Myers
When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.
Aaron Sanchez
I worked at Starbucks when I was 16… It was all right.
Adam Lambert
I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in ‘Cinderella’ and a multitude of them in ‘Cats,’ I’ve wanted the opportunity to actually perform ‘down under.’
Lea Salonga
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.
Kenneth Branagh
Closest to my heart is probably ‘Toast of London’ because I came up with the character, based on a bunch of people I worked with in the industry. And Channel 4 didn’t mess with it. Head to screen, it was exactly as I wanted it.
Matt Berry
Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin’s bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.
Christopher Buckley
I’ve worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.
Amanda Bynes
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that’s all there was on the jukebox.
Tom Waits
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
I’ve been very fortunate with the scripts I’ve had and the people I worked with.
Clive Owen
I worked with some directors, and it was really collabo

I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, ‘It’s about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.’ So I knew I wanted to make films.
Paddy Considine
Mascara can definitely be one of the hardest parts of the beauty routine. Nothing is worse than when you are applying your mascara, and you’ve worked an hour on the most flawless blended eye shadow, and with one slip of the finger, your mascara is all over your face.
James Charles
My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.
Tu Youyou
I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for three years, called ‘Over the Tavern.’
Nico Tortorella
I’ve never worked out, mate. It doesn’t interest me.
Travis Fimmel
Just because I have to deal with the stress and pressure and nerves of elite sport every day, it doesn’t mean it all comes easily. I have worked hard at the mental side of my game.
Jos Buttler
My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.
Joy Harjo
I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children – I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.
Kiki Dee
I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.
Scott McCloud
I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I’ve worked with her. I think she’s amazing… She’s a great producer and has a great business acumen.
Ryan Murphy
I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.
Julia Roberts
My siblings and I had to earn our own pocket money so from the age of about 10 I had a job. I did a paper round, helped with the farmer’s delivery at the weekend, cut hedges for neighbours and worked on a market stall. Then I’d go and buy a record with my hard-won money.
Limahl
I’ve worked in the film business for 45 years, and I want to keep on growing as a filmmaker. I want to see my visual life grow and be increasingly effective in this world.
Tommy Lee Jones