Work Quotes - page 6

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. (Susan Sontag)
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream. View quote
Giorgio de Chirico
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work. View quote
Neil Armstrong
An honest man's the noblest work of God. View quote
Alexander Pope
I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly. View quote
Jonathan Ive
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. View quote
Edmund Burke
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. View quote
Gore Vidal
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. View quote
Robert Frost
We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. (Henry James)
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. View quote
John Ruskin
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. View quote
John Ruskin
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. View quote
Margaret Mead
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. View quote
Maya Angelou
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. View quote
Steven Wright
I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available. View quote
Vanessa L. Williams
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it. View quote
Mae West
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream... (Gustave Moreau)
I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it. View quote
William Saroyan
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. View quote
Lucille Ball
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. View quote
Helen Hayes
If you want to direct, you've got to work. View quote
John Goodman