Work Quotes

"Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day"

Barack Obama, President

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it"

Paul Valery, Poet

"My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"People have the power to redeem the work of fools"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better"

John Hutton, Educator

"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist"

Patti Smith, Musician

"But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

"You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play"

Bridget Riley, Artist

"I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind"

George W. Bush, President

"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do"

Barack Obama, President

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments"

John Steinbeck, Author

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label"

Barack Obama, President

"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today"

Barack Obama, President

"I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it"

Barack Obama, President

"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential"

Barack Obama, President

"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him"

Michelangelo, Artist

"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

"From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work"

George Peppard, Actor

"Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors"

Connie Chung, Journalist

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