981 private quotes tagged work

“Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.” — Abdul Kalam

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“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.” — Peter Drucker

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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — Douglas Adams

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“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.” — Margaret Mead

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“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.” — Edwin Land

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“Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.” — Napoleon Hill

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“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.” — Will Rogers

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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” — Maya Angelou

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“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan

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“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.” — Robert Frost

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“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.” — John Burroughs

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“Evil gains work their punishment.” — Sophocles

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“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” — Pablo Picasso

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“An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.” — William Feather

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“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.” — Alan Watts

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“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.” — Tennessee Williams

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“It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” — Michelangelo

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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” — Emile Zola

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“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.” — George Eliot

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