Work Quotes - page 3

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. (Frank Zappa)
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. View quote
John Dewey
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
My work is a game, a very serious game. View quote
M. C. Escher
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work. View quote
George Carlin
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. View quote
Colin Powell
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. View quote
Robert Benchley
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. View quote
Robert Benchley
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. (Robert Benchley)
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. View quote
Norman Mailer
I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. View quote
Edward Witten
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. View quote
Edward Hopper
My work is writing, but my real work is being. View quote
William Saroyan
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Work is much more fun than fun. (Noël Coward)
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. View quote
Don DeLillo
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous. View quote
James Clavell