Famous Work Quotes
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
By the work one knows the workman.
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work – the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Stay persistent and dedicated to your goals.
Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
I bring the spice, you bring the aftercare. Teamwork makes the dream work.
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don’t flinch, don’t fall; hit the line hard.
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.