Work Quotes

"So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"I really do work in solitude"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"Every person born into this world their work is born with them"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"Change yourself and your work will seem different"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

"I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead"

Sting, Musician

"I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga"

Sting, Musician

"I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"We will make our products work out of the box"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil"

Sting, Musician

"I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving"

Sting, Musician

"For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"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, Novelist

"I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God"

John Calvin, Theologian

"It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future"

Jessamyn West, Author

"I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed"

Sallust, Historian

"The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science"

Franz Boas, Scientist

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