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Quotes About Work

She looked at the faces of the off-shifting workers, gray and featureless as paper handkerchiefs.
~ Unknown
POETS Day, remember! Fox smiled to himself: Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday. It was all the invitation he needed.
~ Ian Rankin
POETS day," he reminded Siobhan. "Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday," she recited.
~ Ian Rankin
The two movers did not require tea – they seemed to work on a supply of fizzy drinks and vaping. Besides which, they were almost done. She heard
~ Ian Rankin
In Rochefort's view, Washington's analytic work was shoddy and its conclusions too often flew in the face of common sense.
~ Ian W. Toll
Earlier, Man ruled woman by force. Now he rules her by making a fool out of her, that is, by making her superior. There is double benefit in ruling by making her superior. She is made doubly responsible. He makes woman superior to himself and brings her out of her home... provides an opportunity to work side by side with him.
~ Unknown
Ice, I've got a movie role for you." I'm like, "Yeah, okay, cool." I figured Mario was doing his own campaigning, you know, trying to impress these females. We should work together—that's a classic Hollywood bullshit line.
~ Unknown
The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.
~ Unknown
Saying of the Prophet Food Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.
~ Idries Shah
Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.
~ Idries Shah
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
~ Idries Shah
But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.
~ Idries Shah
He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.
~ Idries Shah
Pero los Sufis trabajan EN el mundo, y por lo tanto CON 'cosas del mundo'.
~ Idries Shah
Quien primero no haya cavado un pozo, no debería robar un minarete.
~ Idries Shah
En el domino de la Comprensión Mayor, el taller se desmantela cuando el trabajo ha terminado.
~ Idries Shah
Es el hombre completo quien, desde su completez, lleva a cabo, con su maestría, el trabajo de un esclavo.
~ Idries Shah
No serviré a Dios como un obrero a la espera de mi salario.
~ Idries Shah
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.
~ Iggy Pop
Such reflection is always necessary in the knowledge-creating company, but it is especially essential during times of crisis or breakdown, when a company's traditional categories of knowledge no longer work.
~ Ikujiro Nonaka
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
~ Colin Firth
You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
~ Colin Powell
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
~ Colleen C. Barrett
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
~ Colleen C. Barrett