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Thursday, 20 November 2008
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"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment." (Barnes, Djuna - Night)

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Browse Quotations about Work

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.
A man grows most tired while standing still.
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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.
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.
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.
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.
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.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.
Better to burn out than rust out.
Blessed is that man who has found his work.
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.
Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.
Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.
Every man is the son of his own works.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Get the job done.
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?
Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?
How do I work? I grope.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
I am his mistress. His work is his wife.
I believe that good things come to those who work.
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.
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.
I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.
I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
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.
I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.
I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.
-- Bible | Work
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
If food were free, why work?