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Quotes About Work

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
~ Brian Tracy
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
~ Ronald Reagan
Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.
~ Richard Widmark
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
~ Charles Darwin
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.
~ Lee Strasberg
But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.
~ Kenichi Fukui
The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
~ Friedrich Engels
The harder I work the more I live.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
~ Swami Vivekananda
In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
~ Trevor Nunn
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
~ Wim Crouwel
Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
~ Bob Porter
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
~ Lee Konitz
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
~ Maria Montessori
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
~ Donna Mills
I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.
~ Barbara Billingsley
There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.
~ James Iha
Hard work breeds self-respect.
~ Pat Summitt
The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.
~ Hasan of Basra
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
~ John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
Let me sum it up for ya: We got some people who work for a living, and we got some people who vote for a living.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
~ Ginger Rogers
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
~ Josh Billings
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
~ Aristotle