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Quotes About Work

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.
~ Lauren Mayberry
Your life's work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.
~ Laurence Boldt
I always believed, right from the beginning, if you're going to do something, do it the best. If you're going to work, you want to enjoy it-make a product that you really enjoy selling or owning.
~ Laurence Graff
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
~ Laurie Anderson
This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
~ Lawrence Korb
Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come.
~ Lee Clow
I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.
~ Lee Majors
We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.
~ Lee R. Raymond
I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency
~ Leo Burnett
During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.
~ Leon M. Lederman
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
~ Leslie Stephen
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.
~ Lillian Hellman
My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.
~ Lily Collins
It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.
~ Linford Christie
I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.
~ Lionel Messi
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
~ Lloyd Alexander
I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians.
~ Lou Gerstner
I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
~ Lucinda Williams
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
~ Lucy Larcom