Famous Quotes
- That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
- Steve Jobs on Work
- The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
- Mitt Romney on Work
- The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
- The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola on Work
- The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- Gustave Flaubert on Work
- The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
- Havelock Ellis on Work
- The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
- Andrew Carnegie on Work
- The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
- The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
- Charles De Lint on Work
- The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.
- Scott Adams on Work
- The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
- Elbert Hubbard on Work
- The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
- Jean-Paul Sartre on Work
- The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
- Gustave Flaubert on Work
- The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
- Charles Kettering on Work
- The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
- Adam Lambert on Work
- The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
- Milton Friedman on Work
- The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
- Stephen Covey on Work
- The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost on Work
- The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.
- Simon Mainwaring on Work
- The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
- Charles Handy on Work
- The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
- Simone Weil on Work
- The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
- Agha Hasan Abedi on Work
- The days you work are the best days.
- Georgia O'Keeffe on Work
- The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Work
- The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
- Jennifer Weiner on Work
- The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
- Andre Maurois on Work
- The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
- The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- Benjamin Franklin on Work
- The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
- Kamisese Mara on Work
- The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
- The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
- John Ruskin on Work
- The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
- Hillary Clinton on Work
- The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
- The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
- Damon Albarn on Work
- The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.
- The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
- Henry Miller on Work
- The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
- Michael Jackson on Work
- The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
- E. W. Howe on Work
- The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
- Eric Hoffer on Work
- The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn on Work
- The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi on Work
- The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
- Elbert Hubbard on Work
- The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Work
- The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
- David Bowie on Work
- The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on Work
- The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot on Work
- The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
- T. S. Eliot on Work
- The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
- Blaine Lee on Work
- The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
- Thomas Merton on Work
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