work quotes

“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

— Robert Frost

“I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.”

— Dolly Parton

“I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

“But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.”

— David Bowie

“Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

— George Carlin

“I’m willing to work it out however long it takes you. You feel like you miss those happy days, well girl that makes two of us.”

“I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.”

— Steve Martin

“If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down. ”

“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”

“Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

“I love to work. ”

“Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.”

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.”

— Terry Pratchett

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”

“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. ”

“All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else”

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

— Albert Einstein

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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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— Isaac Asimov

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”

— Martin Luther King

“So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'”

“You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.”

“Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.”

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. ”

— Salvador Dali

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