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Work

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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

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Prince, Ray

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

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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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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French