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Quotes About Work

Se si escludono istanti prodigiosi e singoli che il destino ci può donare, l'amare il proprio lavoro (che purtroppo è privilegio di pochi) costituisce la miglior approssimazione concreta alla felicità sulla terra: ma questa è una verità che non molti conoscono.
~ Primo Levi
See Section 5.6.1.4 of the PMBOK® Guide. For adaptive life cycle software projects, work performance data includes velocity, which is used to help establish a realistic scope of work for subsequent iterations.
~ Unknown
Îi dau de lucruu minÈ›ii È™i-mi am?gesc durerea A' mele suferinÈ›e îcerc s? mi le-nÈ™el!
~ Publius Ovidius Naso
The ability to pass judgment without work or research has got to be the coolest consumer good since the invention of philosophy.
~ R. Scott Bakker
I never give advice to young writers. They don't need someone to tell them to write something every day. The one thing I will say is: have fun with it. Don't listen to all these authors who tell you that writing is such hard work... If you go into it thinking that, it's going to be a chore for you. If you instead go, Hey! Look at me writing. I'm creating something! I'm having a good time! that's the way to go. Writing is a lot easier when you have that attitude.
~ R.L. Stine
You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working. Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons! Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. I mean it!
~ Rachel Caine
I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that's just my day, not my week.
~ Rachel Caine
Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane
~ Rachel Caine
Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead, he called. And you said my dispersal system would never work!
~ Rachel Caine
Girl, we need to get you on a study program, fast. You're not going to last a week around here if you can't keep up with the pop culture references. How about Lord of the Rings? Firefly? Doctor Horrible? No? Clearly we have a lot of work to do.
~ Rachel Caine
Michael, gergin bir günde, kaos yaÅŸan?rken arabada herkesi bir yere b?rak?yordur.. Claire: Beni eve b?rak. Teknik konularda çal??aca??m. Eve: Ben Common Grounds'da inerim. Birileriyle konuÅŸmam gerekiyor. Shane: Bende evde oturup televizyon izlerim. Oda önemli bir iÅŸ. Bu kadar bask? alt?nda herkes beceremez.
~ Rachel Caine
Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.
~ Rafael Sabatini
In the healing ways of women that remained mysterious to [him] even as he watched them do their work, tears were followed by reminiscences that brought a smile and soothed, and hope was always found to be the flower that bloomed from every seed of hopelessness.
~ Dean Koontz
As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.
~ Dean Koontz
A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying and liberating to consider this aspect of being a novelist.
~ Dean Koontz
He put the screwdriver on a nearby counter.
~ Dean Koontz
On that Friday, his granddaughter, Sharona, was staffing the front room
~ Dean Koontz
What're you—Jane Hawk?" "Who's Jane Hawk?" "This kick-ass rogue FBI agent in these novels my mom likes. Even if you were Jane Hawk, it won't work the way you say. It never will.
~ Dean Koontz
too much leisure was a dangerous distraction from the cold, hard realities of life
~ Dean Koontz
A labor-saving device doesn't just provide a substitute for some isolated component of a job or other activity. It alters the character of the entire task, including the roles, attitudes, and skills of the people taking part.
~ Deborah Blum
A lazy brain does no one any good.
~ Deborah Ellis
Acquaintances. Seek out what's new and keep the conversation rolling with questions like these: •Bring me up to date on . . . •What's been going on with work since I last saw you? •What has changed in your life since we spoke last? •How's your year been? •What's new with the family? •How's your wife/husband/partner? •How's your job at . . . ? •What are your child's college plans?
~ Debra Fine
The work and the work alone was what mattered and not the individual. (...) He found competition so distasteful that he even opposed school examinations and ranking, as well as all distinctions and honors. Not that he ignored the talent of others. He encouraged and advised those he considered gifted and was always disposed to aid anyone in a difficult situation and even to give his time, which was the greatest sacrifice he could make.
~ Unknown
To speak to you frankly, Reader, I find that you are the more wicked of the two of us. How satisfied would I be if it were as easy for me to protect myself from your calumny as it is for you to protect yourself from the boredom or the danger of my work!
~ Denis Diderot