981 private quotes tagged work

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

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

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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” — Bertrand Russell

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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” — Alexander Pope

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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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“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.” — Voltaire

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“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato

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

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“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” — Michael Jordan

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“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.” — André Gide

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“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.” — Steve Jobs

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“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.” — Ray Bradbury

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“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” — Woody Allen

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“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?” — Ronald Reagan

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.” — Helen Keller

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