981 private quotes tagged work

“Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” — Louisa May Alcott

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

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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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“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.” — George Allen, Sr.

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“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.” — Dale Carnegie

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“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” — Walt Disney

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“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” — Peter Drucker

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“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” — Horace

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“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.” — Mark Twain

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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.” — Carl Sandburg

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“No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.” — Anna Pavlova

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“When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.” — George Carlin

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“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.” — Mark Twain

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“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.” — Lee Iacocca

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“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.” — Tennessee Williams

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“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.” — André Gide

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“Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.” — Samuel Butler

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“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.” — Samuel Butler

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