One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably
why so few engage in it.
- Henry Ford
Luck to me is something else. Hard work - and realizing
what is opportunity and what isn't.
- Lucille Ball
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it
I seem to have.
- Coleman Cox
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is
production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must
be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose,
as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
- Thomas Alva Edison
Be nice to nerds, because the chances are you'll be working for one.
- Unknown
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict
myself upon the public.
- Robert Morley
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- Harry Golden
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he
is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley (1889-1945)
When a man says he got rich through hard work, ask him Whose?
- Don Marquis
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other
fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained
without hard work.
- William Feather
Ever since I started working, every day has been worse than
the one before it, which means that every day that you see me
is the worst day of my life.
- from the movie Office Space
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts
and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
- James Allen
Regardless of what company you work for, never forget the
most important product you're selling is yourself.
- Unknown
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
- Gary Player
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it
is better that you should leave your work.
- Kahlil Gibran
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before
it.
- Madeleine L'Engle
The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future
is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant
data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make
deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions
about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work
collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.
- Robert B. Reich
No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent;
work transforms talent into genius.
- Anna Pavlova
Attempt the impossible only to improve your work.
- Bette Davis
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of
themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
A successful man continues to look for work after he has
found a job.
- Unknown
Even a mosquito doesn't get a slap on the back until it
starts to work.
- Anonymous
Working hard overcomes a whole lot of other obstacles. You
can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections,
you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end,
hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful
people.
- Rear Admiral Marsha Evans
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing
under differing conditions.
- Mark Twain
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question
of success, looks into his work for a reply.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work
is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting
only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big
as you are.
- George C. Hubbs
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist
because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising
the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body.
Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his
own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide
his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we
work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and
eventful.
- William Morris
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll
never have to work a day in your life."
- Jim Fox
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions
come by accident; they came by work.
- Thomas A. Edison
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around.
You've got to get up and work at it to make your dreams
come true
- Poh Yu Khing
No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away
the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard
at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts,
the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors
of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything
in sight.
- Michael Bridge
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice,
and want.
- French Proverb
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
Work your way up or rust your way out.
- Holton
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment
you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to
the office.
- Robert Frost
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.
Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think
you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
- Vince Lombardi
Every noble work is at first impossible.
- Thomas Carlyle
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things
I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did
ten times more work.
- George Bernard Shaw
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work
standing up.
- Ogden Nash
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands,
or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of
idleness.
- Herman Melville
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer,
narcotic, and to some extent even
antibiotic
- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known
to medical science is work.
- Thomas Szasz
Work to survive; survive by consuming; survive to consume:
the hellish cycle is complete.
- Raoul Vaneigem
The man who does not work for the love of work but only
for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun
in life.
- Charles M. Schwab
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work
you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for
it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could
never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and
those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold
you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world
has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing
is to get the work done.
- Dale Carnegie
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great
personal cost.
- William Butler Yeats (1869 - 1939)
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- J. M. Barrie
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks
my heart.
- Jerome K. Jerome
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins
with the division of labor.
- Marshall McLuhan
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to
work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
- Hesiod
Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job
is to listen long enough to find it and use it.
- Jack Nichols
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing
but fear and insecurity.
- John Lennon
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
- Queen Elizabeth
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current
of human life.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the
rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has
plenty of work to do.
- Jerome K. Jerome
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be
lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations
under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in
your mind.
- Unknown
If you really want something in this life, you
have to work for it - Now quiet, they're about to
announce the lottery numbers!
- Homer Simpson
I don't want to achieve immortality through my
work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
- Woody Allen
There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it
right.
- Bill Cosby
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally
find men who disgrace labor.
- Ulysses S. Grant
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some
turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and
some don't turn up at all.
- Sam Ewig
In a 'USA Today' interview, Vanna White said since her son
has been born, she wants to work less. Vanna, you turn
*tiles* for a living. If you worked any less, you'd be
the triangle player in the 'K.C. and the Sunshine Band.'
- Dennis Miller
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of
matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to
other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
The first kind is unpleasant and ill-paid; the second is
pleasant and highly paid.
- Bertrand Russell
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may
eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
- Mark Twain
If A equals success, then the formula is
_ A = _ X + _ Y + _ Z. _ X is work.
_ Y is play. _ Z is keep your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
- H. Jackson Browne
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the
boss will add it to your regular duties.
- Doug Larson
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to
leave their hearts at home.
- Betty Bender
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D.
Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
- "Fats" Domino
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