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Quotes About Work

KGB, collapsed. Of course it was incredibly difficult to go through this. After all, most of my life had been devoted to work in the agencies. But I had made my choice.
~ Vladimir Putin
Devemos ser sempre fiéis aos nossos princípios. Tal como no xadrez, não devemos agachar demasiado e fazer jogadas forçadas. A coerção não é vida para ninguém - os paliativos dedo trabalho são quanto baste.
~ Vladimir Sorokin
Devemos ser sempre fiéis aos nossos princípios. Tal como no xadrez, não devemos agachar demasiado e fazer jogadas forçadas. A coerção não é vida para ninguém - os paliativos do trabalho são quanto baste.
~ Vladimir Sorokin
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need
~ Voltaire
Work is often the father of pleasure.
~ Voltaire
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
~ Voltaire
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
~ Voltaire
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
~ Voltaire
Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.
~ Voltaire
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
~ Voltaire
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
~ Voltaire
Business is the salt of life.
~ Voltaire
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."
~ Voltaire
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
~ Voltaire
The Plains Indians made cuffs and gauntlets which they wore on ceremonial occasions. The Blackfoot especially liked the gauntlet with its large beaded and fringed tops. These were no doubt copied after the riding gauntlets of the United States Cavalry in the Indian territory. The Sioux, Crow, Ute, and Cheyenne made the cuff part only. These, too, were decorated with bead and quill work.
~ Unknown
In interviewing salesmen, appeal to their imagination, appeal to their emotions, by telling the stories of other men in the organization who are a success in your work.
~ W. Clement Stone
by employing the right work habits, you do become an expert. Then you experience the joy of work, and the job is no longer work. It becomes fun.
~ W. Clement Stone
As you read this chapter, you saw it clearly: To develop good character, work. To have good health, work. To win over yourself, work. To do the right thing because it is right, work. To rise from rags to riches, work. To fight your way back, work. To acquire knowledge, work. To acquire know-how, work.
~ W. Clement Stone
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this—with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Christine, what is your job? Is it: To make 25 calls per hours? Or To give callers courteous satisfaction, no brushoff. It can not be both.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Money and time spent for training will be ineffective unless inhibitors to good work are removed.
~ W. Edwards Deming