981 private quotes tagged work

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

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“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.” — Plato

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“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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

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“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.” — Mark Twain

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“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” — Stephen Hawking

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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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“The pay is good and I can walk to work.” — John F. Kennedy

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

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“Evil gains work their punishment.” — Sophocles

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“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” — Khalil Gibran

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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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“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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“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” — Thomas Carlyle

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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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“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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“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” — Fred Rogers

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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” — Pablo Picasso

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“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” — Leo Tolstoy

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