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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

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.

John Ruskin

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

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, French

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Confucius

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

Prince, Ray

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Riley, Pat

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey