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Work

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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

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Foster, Jodie

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

10.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

11.

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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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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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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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Ford, Henry

18.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

19.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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.

21.

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

Twain, Mark

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

25.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

28.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

29.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

30.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

31.

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

Romer, Frank

32.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

34.

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 question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

39.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

44.

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

Proverb, French

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

46.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

49.

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

50.

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