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Work

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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

Work is a four letter word!

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Riley, Pat

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lennon, John

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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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