981 private quotes tagged work

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” — Steve Jobs

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“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.” — Jack Welch

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“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.” — André Gide

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“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” — Anatole France

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“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.” — Gore Vidal

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“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” — Stephen Hawking

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“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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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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“If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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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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“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.” — Victor Hugo

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“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.” — Robert Frost

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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” — Aristotle

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“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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