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There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.


Jonathan Ive

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TOM PETERS When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
JONATHAN IVE Where nothing works, there Team works.
IMRAN NAZIR Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in...
LOUIS L'AMOUR There is something rearing in the works, but we are not sure what that is.
JAMIE HARRIS When you try to do something for somebody, it just never seems like it works out.
KABEER GBAJA-BIAMILA If inherently something works in the U.S. does not necessarily mean it works in Paris, Vietnam or Ja...
CHAN SUH I just need something that has a dial tone and works Used works great for me.
WARREN FIELDS We shall be judged according to our works – this is why we are exhorted to do good works. The Bibl...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER When Luck Fucks nothing Works, but when luck works nothing fucks
PRAVEEN KUMAR V Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
BRIAN MASTERS Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
BRIAN MASTERS Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm
BRIAN MASTERS You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
GARY COLE When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.
KRISTEN WIIG Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from...
TINA FEY When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We...
HANS HAACKE It works for paint, it works for squad cars, it works for insurance. Why not health care?
DAN THOMPSON The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because som...
SY LEON The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because som...
SY LEON Mind is like a parachute, it works best when it’s open.
104INC The mind is like a razor; it only works when sharp.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.
SARAH DESSEN When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or a...
JOEL ROBUCHON Is there any good works without grace?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He does that all the time in practice. He works on it and works on it. When the time comes, he knows...
JUSTIN SCOTT It rarely works. The only time it genuinely works is if the actor has some musical ability and orien...
CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT It works for [the midwives]. It works for us.
JOHN BYRNE I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' Whe...
JOHN CARNEY Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Anybody who works in a convenience store or works unusual hours should be aware of what or who is ar...
GREG THOMPSON Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's ...
LIZ PHAIR Hardware works best when it matters the least.
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE Hardware works best when it matters the least.
NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE Hardware works best when it matters the least.
NORMAN AUGUSTINE Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
GREG BEAR There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.
AZOUZ ENNIFAR It's not a hippie experiment anymore, ... It actually works and it works really well.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN Getting sued is the chance you take when you do something proactive. For the most part, it works the...
WAYNE JOHNSON Getting sued is the chance you take when you do something proactive, ... For the most part, it works...
WAYNE JOHNSON An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in th...
RONALD REAGAN Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
DAISETZ T. SUZUKI To stand on the
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PAUL AUSTER Believe in something enough to push it, never mind if it works or not
SOTONYE ANGA If you repeat something enough times, you will learn it. That's how it works!
DEYTH BANGER If rail works there, and I believe it does, there is no doubt in my mind it will work here.
LEE WALKER As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter....
MINDY KALING I just try to get something going. Most of the time it works.
BRYCE SWANSON My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it w...
BILL BURR Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It’s that easy.
NEIL GAIMAN Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.
NEIL GAIMAN When nothing works, persistence will.
ABHISHEK RATNA This is so cliche and cheesy but so true - seeing how happy people get if you A. give them a beauty ...
EVA CHEN A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
RUDOLF OTTO The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.
PAUL WEYRICH When we give people the help they need, it works,
ANDREW CUOMO Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about ...
VAL MCDERMID That's how it works, if it's catastrophic, it works off a sponsor agreement.
CHRIS STEWART Retailers know this stuff works and that consumers like it when it's done properly.
PHIL LEMPERT I don't have anyone on this team who works much harder than Cesar - ever. When he controls the midfi...
DUANE DESPAIN We don't subscribe to that adjustment even when it works out in our favor.
GEORGE PIPAS A column really works best when you really have something to say about something. I haven't had a gr...
JOHN TIERNEY I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
LARRY NIVEN Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for ever...
CAROLINE LEAVITT When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so...
HANNIBAL BURESS It's the teenagers that really make something really special. When you've got that on your side, the...
PHIL COLLEN With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it ...
JIMMY PAGE You can have 50 sows or 800,000 sows, and it works for everybody. It works across the board.
JACK TICHY I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I...
MARIO TESTINO Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.
MELISSA BEAN This is the year when we will see what works and what fails.
ANITA FRAZIER Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a di...
FRANCIS COLLINS The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It's hard to be free but when it works, it' s worth it!
JANIS JOPLIN I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other...
AUGUST WILSON Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA
AMIT RAY We've got a lot of things in the works.
CHARLIE GILSON It works like this ,
ROBERT BURNS Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Good works will be recognized ultimately, but if you work for the recognizion alone, you may be in f...
LORRAINE MONROE As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves.
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CHARLES NEMEROFF Carnivore works fine. It is just a
DANIEL RYAN When leaders lack expertise, nothing else works
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open...
TAYA KYLE I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.
BRITT EKLAND If you understand mechanistically how something works, then you will know how best to fix it.
ERIC KNUDSEN Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their wo...
BIBLE People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works...
VINCE GILLIGAN Every minute, I am learning something new. It's cool to learn about the process and how it actually ...
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ANNE HUTCHINSON where everything is transparent, so you can see how stuff works. Robots or multimedia displays would...
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Which ever side you think i...
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JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
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JONATHAN MARTIN The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous.
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JONATHAN CARROLL Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.
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JONATHAN KOZOL May you live every day of your life.
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JONATHAN CARROLL Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
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JONATHAN STROUD Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
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JONATHAN STROUD God rest her soul and may she never walk at night
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JONATHAN STROUD One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
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JONATHAN STROUD Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a cer...
JONATHAN STROUD Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the m...
JONATHAN STROUD Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
JONATHAN STROUD More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.
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JONATHAN STROUD Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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JONATHAN SCHATTKE Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
JONATHAN SWIFT Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT What some people invent the rest enlarge.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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JONATHAN RABAN One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
JONATHAN KOZOL Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio...
JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
JONATHAN MILLER For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,
JONATHAN KOZOL What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS