Work Quotes

"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided"

Mark Twain, Author

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying"

Woody Allen, Director

"The end crowneth the work"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!"

Og Mandino, Author

"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away"

Lyn Nofziger

"Hard work pays off"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

"In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"I work with nature, although in completely new terms"

Bridget Riley, Artist

"Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old"

Robert Indiana, Artist

"I get angry about things, then go on and work"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure"

Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

"I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me"

Marcia Gay Harden, Actress

"While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky"

Armand Hammer, Businessman

"I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right"

Namie Amuro, Musician

"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music"

John Coltrane, Musician

"I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean"

Mathias Rust, Aviator

"This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up"

Nancy Greene, Athlete

"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace"

Frederick W. Taylor, Scientist

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

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