981 private quotes tagged work

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

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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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“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.” — Frank Zappa

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

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

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

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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 as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” — Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.” — George Carlin

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“We work to become, not to acquire.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” — Anne Frank

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