Work Quotes - page 9

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. (Gustave Flaubert)
The man is nothing, the work - all. (December 1875) View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. View quote
Hesiod
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. View quote
Salman Rushdie
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it. View quote
Matthew Barney
There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time. View quote
Coco Chanel
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. View quote
Will Rogers
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. View quote
Pearl Bailey
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married? View quote
Barbra Streisand
The harder you work, the luckier you get. (Gary Player)
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. View quote
André Gide
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. View quote
Anna Quindlen
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. View quote
Ann Landers
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. View quote
Steve Wozniak
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction. View quote
Roman Polański
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. View quote
Ellen Goodman
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. (Evan Esar)
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you don't have a chance. View quote
Alex Rodriguez
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. View quote
Michelangelo