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Quotes About Work

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.
~ Virginia Hamilton
My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
~ Victor Hugo
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
~ Sri Aurobindo
My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
~ Agnes de Mille
Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.
~ Mother Teresa
Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture.
~ Hank Williams III
Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.
~ Crystal Reed
A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.
~ Robert Ripley
People work in the system. Management creates the system
~ W. Edwards Deming
If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.
~ James Turrell
Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
~ D. Todd Christofferson
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.
~ Charles Darwin
...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.
~ Charles Fourier
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
~ H. R. Giger
Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.
~ Michael Dell
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.
~ Che Guevara
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
~ Mikhail Botvinnik
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
~ Charles Churchill
Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.
~ John James Audubon
Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
~ Leo Szilard