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Work

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Book, William Frederick

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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...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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Parkinson's Law

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

31.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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 is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Romer, Frank

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles