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Quotes About Work

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
~ Tim Gould
My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.
~ Tom Felton
They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.
~ Tom Waits
Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.
~ Tulku Thondup
All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
~ Usain Bolt
The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.
~ Vince Staples
I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.
~ Wade Guyton
Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.
~ Walt Disney
Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.
~ Ward Cunningham
God is more interested in the workman than in the work.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
~ Wayne McGregor
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
~ Whitfield Diffie
Work to make a living; serve to make a life.
~ Will Rogers
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
~ William Ellery Channing
I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
~ William Faulkner
I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.
~ William Matthews
I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.
~ Yogi Berra
You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.
~ Yves Behar
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
~ Zengzi
From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.
~ Zhang Ziyi
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.
~ bell hooks
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
~ Benjamin Franklin