981 private quotes tagged work

“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” — Carl Jung

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“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.” — Ray Bradbury

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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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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” — Alexander Pope

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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” — Bertrand Russell

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“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.” — André Gide

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“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.” — Robert Frost

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

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“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.” — Steve Jobs

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“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” — Mark Twain

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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?” — Ronald Reagan

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“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.” — Helen Keller

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“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.” — Pablo Picasso

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“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” — Henry Ford

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“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” — Nelson Mandela

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“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“We work to become, not to acquire.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.” — T. S. Eliot

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“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” — Anne Frank

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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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