Work Quotes
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke -
There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith -
What did this long-range goodwill mean, and what did it say about the social contract that allowed a rich man to free all of his descendents from the need to work over the course of almost two centuries?
Edward St Aubyn -
I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.
Barack Obama -
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau -
Quality is everyone's responsibility.
W. Edwards Deming
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.
Abraham Lincoln -
I work hard. But I play hard, too.
Pitbull -
So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.
Olga Fonda -
When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.
Gary Goetzman -
Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
Mark Twain
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
Ma Long -
Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
The Weeknd -
I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
Pete Townshend The Who -
It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
Isaac Newton -
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
Adam Grant -
In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
Alvar Aalto
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
Halima Aden -
Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.
Yehuda Berg -
Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
Xun Kuang -
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
Bette Midler