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Quotes About Work

Still in Bed? Thomas had asked with amusement, as Lissianna had blinked at them. I am so glad you got at least a little rest today. I feared you'd work Greg to death while the rest of us tried to sleep.
~ Lynsay Sands
punctual discharge of his irksome duties.
~ Lytton Strachey
Laziness is love's opposite.
~ M. Scott Peck
Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage.
~ M. Scott Peck
If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.
~ M. Scott Peck
Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.
~ M. Scott Peck
At this point they begin either to dissolve the ties of their relationship or to initiate the work of real loving.
~ M. Scott Peck
It is not wise to mistake great effort for productive effort
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
That too is a truism among us, aunera. We say that your work must also provide your meditation, and if it does not soothe you to undertake some part of it, you are in the wrong work.)
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
Ora aqui está um homem que detesta a folha e paga. Quantos a adoram e não pagam!
~ Machado de Assis
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
A silly idea about a book of blessings couldn't really work. Not seriously.
~ Maeve Binchy
That was the thing about people her age, they were programmed to work and smile and they just go on with it.
~ Maeve Binchy
We need, then, to protect a time and a place for timeless time, and to remind ourselves continually that this is not self-indulgent but rather crucial to intellectual work. If we don't find timeless time, there is evidence that not only our work but also our brains will suffer.
~ Maggie Berg
Our work is an ongoing struggle with unintended consequences. We must try to narrow the gap, which is sometimes a gulf, between what we intend and the results we achieve.
~ Maile Meloy
With sociology one can do anything and call it work.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Working really hard is what successful people do
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Don't depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.
~ Malcolm Gladwell