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Quotes About Work

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
~ William Petersen
Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.
~ William Russell
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
~ William Shatner
I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
~ Yani Tseng
The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
~ Yehuda Amichai
I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.
~ Yoko Ono
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
~ Zara Phillips
Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
~ Zig Ziglar
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
~ Katharine Hepburn
I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
~ Keanu Reeves
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
~ Robert Brault
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.
~ Robert Orben
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
~ Michael Jackson
A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.
~ Dolly Parton
The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
~ Solomon Burke
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
~ Ken Livingstone
My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
~ Michael Pollan
To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
~ Harvey Fierstein
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
~ Marilyn Hacker
I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.
~ Christopher Walken
I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.
~ D. B. Sweeney
I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
~ Bill Murray
We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
~ Jim Henson