Quotes
Quotes about Work
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
Dictionary: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance.
I never did a day's work in my life; it was all fun.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -Maria Montessori, Italian educator (1870-1952)
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first is unpleasant and ill-paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Live a balanced life - Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
