work quotes

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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.'”

— Steve Jobs

“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.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Heraclitus

Work quotes - Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

“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.”

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

“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

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

— Paulo Coelho

“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”

— Antonio Gaudi

“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.”

— Antonio Banderas

“It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.”

— Antonio Banderas

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

— Robert Frost

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci