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Work

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Lennon, John

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Robert Morley

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert