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Quotes About Work

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time.
~ Paul Walker
Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
~ Jeff Bridges
I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.
~ Wayne Huizenga
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'
~ Terry Pratchett
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
~ Alan Paton
Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.
~ Ellen Willis
It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
~ Pablo Picasso
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.
~ Beatrice Wood
He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.
~ John Owen
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
~ Abdul Kalam
Love and serve the world through your work.
~ Gautama Buddha
I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.
~ Shahrukh Khan
In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.
~ Gloria Steinem
I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.
~ Brice Marden
I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.
~ Parker J. Palmer
The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
~ Benedetto Croce
Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?
~ P. D. James
Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.
~ Paula Scher
The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.
~ Charlie Munger
I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.
~ Ernest Borgnine