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Quotes About Work

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.
~ C. S. Lewis
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.
~ Arthur Symons
These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
~ Ang Lee
I have a passion for life that allows me to make the most of my days and fill them with work and play.
~ Nick Symmonds
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
~ William Osler
I'm not saying that I don't like the success of the job, but I really like going to work every day and I really like coming home and feeling satisfied with what I did today.
~ Norman Reedus
Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
~ Red Adair
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.
~ Ken Burns
Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.
~ H. Allen Smith
I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.
~ William Fichtner
Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.
~ Denis Waitley
Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.
~ Youssou N'Dour
Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.
~ Albert Einstein
I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.
~ Richard Widmark
I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.
~ Michael Landon
The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it.
~ Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.
~ Evan Esar
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
~ Laurence J. Peter