“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.”
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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.”
“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”
“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.”
“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.”
“The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.”
“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.”
“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.”
“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
“I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.”
“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!”
“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.”
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
“No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.”
“Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.”
“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”