Work Quotes

"It is difficult to make political art work"

"I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom"

Larry David, Actor

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe"

Henry Miller, Writer

"Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'"

Henry Miller, Writer

"We are immortal until our work on earth is done"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired"

Moliere, Playwright

"Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow"

Don Herold, Writer

"When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"Russia needs to take a page out of North Korea’s book for a certain number of years: close all our borders, stop pulling punches, bring back all our boys from abroad, and work hard. Then we’ll see some kind of result"

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Businessman

"We’re currently in a state where there’s a danger of just pissing away Russia. So we should declare martial law, we should declare new waves of mobilization, and we need to transfer everybody we can to work on ammunition production. We need to cut the fat, stop building new roads and new infrastructure, and work only on the war"

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Businessman

"I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work"

Lars von Trier, Director

"I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

"Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be"

Larry Wall, Author

"There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience"

Piper Perabo, Actress

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all"

Sam Ewing, Athlete

"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

"Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art"

Muriel Rukeyser, Poet

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