“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
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“Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.”
“Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.”
“Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.”
“Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.”
“Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.”
“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
“When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
“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.”
“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
“It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.”
“I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.”
“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
“I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.”
“How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?”
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
“I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
“I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.”
“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”
“I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.”
“If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.”
“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.”
“We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.”
“Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.”