Works Quotes

Talent works, genius creates. (Robert Schumann)
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. View quote
Confucius
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. View quote
Fred Allen
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. View quote
Robert Morley
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. View quote
Pliny the Elder
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. View quote
John Updike
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. (Robert Benchley)
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act. View quote
Arthur Miller
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. View quote
Daniel Berrigan
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. View quote
Anne Hutchinson
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. View quote
Tom Peters
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. View quote
Joan Miró
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. View quote
Freeman Dyson
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. View quote
Karlheinz Stockhausen
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. View quote
John Ruskin
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works. (Steve Ballmer)
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. View quote
E. M. Forster
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. View quote
Larry Bird
Design isn't just how it looks. It's how it works. View quote
Steve Jobs
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. View quote
Jascha Heifetz