981 private quotes tagged work

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” — Steve Jobs

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“The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.” — Jack Welch

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“All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.” — André Gide

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“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” — Stephen Hawking

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“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” — Anatole France

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“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.” — Samuel Butler

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“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.” — Victor Hugo

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“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.” — Samuel Butler

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“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.” — André Gide

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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” — Aristotle

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“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.” — Voltaire

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“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.” — Bertrand Russell

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“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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