981 private quotes tagged work

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

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“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.” — E. B. White

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

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

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“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.” — Will Rogers

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“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.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“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.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.” — Coco Chanel

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“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.” — Abdul Kalam

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“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” — Anna Quindlen

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“Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.” — Zakk Wylde

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“The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.” — Brian Eno

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“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.” — Paulo Coelho

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“You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I'm going to work every single day, I don't think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!” — Mindy Kaling

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