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Quotes About Work

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
~ Miguel Indurain
Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.
~ Chuck Yeager
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
~ Marianne Williamson
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
~ Freeman Dyson
All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.
~ Carlos Slim
I like good company, but I like hard work still better.
~ Camille Saint-Saens
I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.
~ William H. McRaven
If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.
~ Ava DuVernay
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.
~ Mother Teresa
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
~ David Hockney
Good work is always done in defiance of management.
~ Bob Woodward
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.
~ Javier Bardem
Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
~ Thomas P. O'Neill
Immortality is a by-product of good work.
~ Mel Brooks
Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.
~ Rebecca M. Blank
Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.
~ Vance Packard
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
~ John F. Kennedy
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
~ Twyla Tharp
I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red."
~ Malvina Reynolds