Work Quotes

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Patience is also a form of action.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

A different language is a different vision of life.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Among our people, theres not any question about women being strong — even stronger than men — they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you dont have these questions about yourself like middle — class women do.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir one's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work; remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Communication works for those who work at it.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? (suicide note)

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

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.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Change is such hard work.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore — I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Work is much more fun than fun.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path laid down by former leaders of the party for the development of the country and its brighter future.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

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.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

The happy people are those who are producing something...

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.

Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.

I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

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.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Great thoughts come from the heart.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Success is dependent on effort.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

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.

By the work one knows the workman.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

The work will stand, no matter what.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one is sure if a shouted 'Bingo!' counted as a yea or a nay.

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

I never stay away from workouts. I work hard. I've tried to take care of my body. I'll never look back and say that I could have done more. I've paid the price in practice, but I know I get the most out of my ability.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

The print is devised so that I can cut the dresses on the bias, so they work around the body. It's not like a regular print that you buy and ends up being a vertical and a horizontal placement. It works around the body.

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

If it doesn't work, at least it will be an interesting train wreck.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge....

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

I have done all the work I usually do and a little bit more, so hopefully that will produce results in at least one of the last two Tests.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

Many hands make light work.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Give me love and work - these two only.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

Handle your tools without mittens.

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

Chance favors only those who court her.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

If you want peace, work for justice.

You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

Exchange is creation.

Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit.

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

Annika has the type of game I want to work on. She's just so consistent. Hopefully I'll be like that one day.

We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help.

The work is the most important thing.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world...

Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.".

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

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.

To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.

It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends....

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Who longest wait of all surely wins.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

Work is the province of cattle.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

I see what keeps people young: work!

That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

I try to work with God as a partner.

The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car.

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.

I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard, ... Just listening to my father . . . So just basically following that and following my heart.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

The German passion for bureaucracy — for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist — is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

Play needs direction as well as work.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

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.