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We have become famous for religious gatherings rather than individual personal work with God.
— Sunday Adelaja
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
— Audre Lorde
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.
— Judith Wright
I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.
— Elton John
A calling is the most satisfying form of work because, as gratification, it is done for its own sake rather than for the material benefits it brings,
— Daniel H. Pink
I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.
— Garrison Keillor
Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
— Pliny The Younger
I will rather be poor doing what I love, than to be rich hating what I do.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
— Hudson Taylor
Fair-minded people make a concerted effort to pull their own weight rather than living off the hard work of others.
— Frank Sonnenberg
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.
— Bill Sienkiewicz
A lot of my fears come out in my work rather than life.
— Adrian Tomine
I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
— Colin Firth
He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.
— Rick Warren
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
— Alan Kay
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?
— James K.A. Smith
I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.
— Ram Dass
[Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions.
— C.S. Lewis
I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.
— Robert Benchley
When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.
— Gillian Wearing
I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.
— Henri Nouwen
When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.
— Moby
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It must be rather dull taking up someone else's work rather than something you've conceived and created yourself.
— Daniel Keyes
People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results.
— Dalia Grybauskaite
A leader should care way more about HOW people are doing rather than HOW they are doing their work.
— Perry Noble
I'd rather work than not.
— Tommy Bolin
You are made
Rather to wonder at the things you hear
Than to work any. — William Shakespeare
Rather to wonder at the things you hear
Than to work any. — William Shakespeare
perhaps real beauty was something unrecognized by the conscious self, a work that was always in progress, a thing of being rather than seeing.
— Stephen King
Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.
— Kerry Greenwood
People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and what.
— Anthony Liccione
We've learned it's better to work together to create more possibilities for all, rather than cling to past prejudices.
— Lisa Carlisle
It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.
— Herbert Read
You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
— Sam Mendes
Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.
— Elizabeth George
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
— David Hockney
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
— George R R Martin
I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.
— Mike McGavick
I'd rather be a piece of work than a piece of shit.
— Robert Kirkman
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.
— Gary Hamel
I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
— Sebastiao Salgado
I'd rather work to live than live to work.
— Mila Kunis
I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.
— Howard Gardner
The perceived meaninglessness of work is often part of depression. It usually, however, is a sign of depression rather than a cause. Death.
— Edward T. Welch
A true artist would see his family starve, rather than work at anything other than his art.
— Anonymous
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.
— T.D. Jakes
I would rather obey than work miracles.
— Martin Luther
For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.
— Paul Torday
When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
— Ian McKellen
I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.
— Chester Brown
But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
— William Penn
I don't know how anyone can work on people's mouths all day long. That disgusts me. I'd rather work on the other end than work on mouths.
— Joelle Carter
You know you've found your calling, when you would rather do it and fail, than not do it.
— Alexander Kjerulf
I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.
— Martha Plimpton
The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.
— Nick Saban
Salvation is a work of God for man, rather than a work of man for God.
— Lewis Sperry Chafer
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
— Patti Smith
Monday at 9 A.M. is when people start their workweek," Joy said passionately. "Think about that, George. People would rather die than go to work,
— Jon Gordon
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
— Mother Teresa
I would rather fail doing God's work than have a pseudo-victory being co-opted by someone else.
— Otis Moss III
I am not fond of Money but what i have to do in order to get it, i am fond of what i get in exchange for it's worth rather than money itself.
— Sachin Kumar Puli
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
— Mortimer Adler
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
— Christina Baldwin
I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.
— Matthew Crawford
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
— Salman Rushdie
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
— Alfie Allen
I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.
— Claire Danes
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
— Raymond Pettibon
I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.
— Harold Ramis
I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.
— James Turrell
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
— Kurt Vonnegut
If you want to get the best out of people, ask them for help rather than assigning them work.
— Jag Randhawa
I'd rather work with someone who likes what I do than create something for the red carpet that won't make me happy.
— Nicolas Ghesquiere
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
— Peter Morgan
Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.
— Walter Benjamin
I will read anything rather than work.
— Jean Kerr
I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.
— Neil Gaiman
I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
— Kevin Costner
To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.
— Joel Edgerton
No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't
— Derek R. Audette
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
— Timothy Keller