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Work

Work is a four letter word!

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Prince, Ray

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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.

John Ruskin

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

38.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

39.

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.