work quotes

“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

“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.”

— Salvador Dali

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

— Woody Allen

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”

— Mother Teresa

“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”

— Mother Teresa

“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.”

— Mother Teresa

“Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.”

— Hippocrates

“My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.”

— Fidel Castro

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

— Oscar Wilde

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