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Quotes About Work

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.
~ John Galliano
It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.
~ John Maus
When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.
~ Dr. Seuss
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
~ Voltaire, Candide
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I work as my father drank.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.
~ Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
~ L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
~ Cicero
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
~ Lillie Langtry
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
~ Anna Jameson
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
~ William Feather
Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.
~ Emanuel Cleaver
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
~ Suzanne Farrell
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
~ Major Owens
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
~ David Eddings
I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
~ Olivier Martinez
Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.
~ Gwen Stefani
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
~ Jay Chiat
I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.
~ Alan Autry
One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
~ Nancy McKeon
The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.
~ Alton Brown