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Quotes About Work

One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.
~ Jonathan Brandis
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Go to the Sydney Institute Media Watch Dog website to marvel at his [Gerard Henderson's] work.
~ Mark Latham
What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.
~ Reynolds Price
If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?
~ Mark T Bertolini
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.
~ Marilyn Monroe
That balance of love for your work and love in your life is an interesting thing.
~ Emma Stone
Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'
~ Robert Knepper
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
~ Walt Disney
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
~ Oscar Hammerstein II
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
~ Alvar Aalto
I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
~ Adam Carolla
Love turns work into rest.
~ Teresa of Avila
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
~ Al Capp
I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
~ Richard Pryor
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
~ Brian Eno
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
~ Hugh Grant
They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.
~ Robert Mueller
I just didn't wanna put the pressure on myself to be in there [Def Jam South] to work as an artist and to have the hat as the executive with other projects.
~ DJ Khaled
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.
~ John Lurie
People would pay money to work at CNN
~ Larry King