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Quotes About Work

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
~ Edward Tufte
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
~ Edward Tufte
An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.
~ Elmore Leonard
All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.
~ Elton John
I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.
~ Emma Thompson
perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
~ Erica Jong
In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
~ Ernst Lubitsch
I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.
~ Etty Hillesum
One of the reasons that Christians read Scripture repeatedly and carefully is to find out just how God works in Jesus Christ so that we can work in the name of Jesus Christ.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld