For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

21.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

22.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

23.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

25.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

26.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

27.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

28.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

30.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

31.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

32.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

33.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

34.

...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

35.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

37.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

38.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

39.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

40.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

41.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

42.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

45.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

46.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

47.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.