Work Quotes - page 3

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. (Theodore Roosevelt)
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. View quote
Émile Zola
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. View quote
William Shakespeare
My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. View quote
Robert Morley
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. View quote
Charles de Lint
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. View quote
Kofi Annan
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. (William Hazlitt)
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. View quote
Frank Zappa
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
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. View quote
John Dewey
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
My work is a game, a very serious game. View quote
M. C. Escher
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work. View quote
George Carlin
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. View quote
Colin Powell
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. View quote
Robert Benchley
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. (Robert Benchley)
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. View quote
Robert Benchley
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. View quote
Norman Mailer
I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. View quote
Edward Witten
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