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Quotes About Work

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.
~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
~ Jerome Robbins
Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
~ Zane Grey
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
~ Philip Guston
Work is making a living out of being bored.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success
~ Bill Gates
I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.
~ Dot Richardson
What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.
~ Adrien Brody
I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
~ Karl Pilkington
China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.
~ Yuan Shikai
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
~ Steven Levitt
For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.
~ R. C. Sproul
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
~ Samuel Johnson
Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I am today.
~ Pierre Berge
Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.
~ Tsem Tulku
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
~ Laurence Olivier
Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
~ Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
~ Zaha Hadid
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
~ W. P. Kinsella
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.
~ Martin O'Malley
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
~ Glen Campbell
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
~ Michael Douglas