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Quotes About Work

I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.
~ John Bunyan
I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.
~ Jon Lech Johansen
The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.
~ Ingrid Bergman
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
~ Nan Fairbrother
I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.
~ Millicent Fenwick
Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.
~ Iimani David
If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.
~ J. C. Kumarappa
Guns don't kill people, husbands who come home early from work kill people
~ Larry the Cable Guy
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
~ Theodor Adorno
We've got rights the right to starve We've got jobs waiting for work We're all brothers lousy and dirty We're all free and equal to die like dogs
~ Peter Weiss
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
~ Ann Patchett
You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.
~ Ira Glass
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
~ Paul Krugman
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.
~ Rei Kawakubo
Without work all life goes rotten.
~ Albert Camus
When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.
~ Ava DuVernay
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
~ Khalil Gibran
I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play.
~ Sanaa Lathan
If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.
~ Terrence Howard
We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
~ Newt Gingrich
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
~ David Whyte
Surely love is both work and wages.
~ Richard Baxter