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Quotations by Subject: Work
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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.: Howard Newton
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
By the work one knows the workmen.: Jean De La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Give It Your All, 06-22-12
...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.: Joseph Joubert
I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
My work is a game, a very serious game.: M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.: Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.: Randall Munroe, xkcd, Marie Curie, 2011
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.: Richard Bach
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.: Robert Morley
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.: Sam Ewing
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.: Sam Ewing
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students
You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech in New York, September 7, 1903

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