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Quotes About Work

No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.
~ Randy Pausch
I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.
~ Myrna Loy
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.
~ Merlin Mann
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
~ Scott Adams
Families mean work,but they are our great work,and we are not afraid of work.
~ Julie B. Beck
I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.
~ Jacob Hashimoto
I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.
~ Corey Haim
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
~ Eddie Marsan
I have jobs that I've preferred more than others simply because I've gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I've pulled at least one very close friend from every project I've done.
~ Nathan Fillion
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
~ Tryon Edwards
Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.
~ Laurence Fox
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
~ Calvin Coolidge
I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.
~ Timothy Olyphant
When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.
~ Guido Palau
Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.
~ Toby Jones
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
~ Gregor Mendel
When I'm working, I need to be pretty disciplined, but I do like to enjoy my food. I like to keep it fresh and wholesome. Preparing your own food can be a great way to unwind.
~ Julia Stiles
Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.
~ Dominic Sherwood
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
~ Tristan Tzara
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
~ Henri Matisse
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
~ Sir Theodore Martin
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
~ J.M. Barrie
In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir