Quotes About Work

Nothing good can come from a crack of dawn meeting on a Monday morning.

Erasing is exercise for the hands

Never send a Man in to do a Donkey's job

Paradigm shift: does that come before swing shift or after?

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

Nothing will work unless you do.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.