Work quotes

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
Rudyard Kipling

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
Alistair Cooke

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.
Orhan Pamuk

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
George Bernard Shaw

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat
Anthony Head

Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.
Claudia Schiffer

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
Beryl Markham

I think it will help people have a better work-life balance, that's really important - that's the centre ground for me, it's the issues people care about in their lives.
David Cameron

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstery. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
Pamela Anderson

“Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims

“Every work of art is about everything.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims

“Originality in art puts charm where it wasn’t.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims

“Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims

Eli Siegel

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.
Harry Bridges

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau

The workers have nothing but their chains to lose in this. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, unite!
Karl Marx

I've been working hard in the studio. I postd a couple of new songs to get an idea of my new direction, they are just at a demo stage so don't be too hard on them.
Lily Allen

We're going to be working very hard in training - and it's not going to be nice
Dennis Wise

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Bible

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
Martin Luther King Jr

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
George Soros

What happens is you come in and you think you're just coming into a house... then there are several flats and there's about 250 or 300 people that work here [on living at number 10]
Tony Blair

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T Washington

My brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being.
William Wordsworth

On his own history with mathematics, and connection with John Nash: 'I had a bit of a hiccup in the third year of high school. The school I was at hired a non-English speaking Hungarian who was a professional of some great standing in Eastern Europe. But he hadn't learned the English language yet. He probably is a great asset to the teaching staff now, but we were his first class. That was when mathematics and I parted ways.

'There's a lot of mathematics in music. It's all in groups of eight, mate, y'know. The one thing that I may have in common with John is that the subject matter I do know, the driving part of my life, my work life, there's a point where structure and scaffolding is left behind and intuition takes over. That's the difference between John and the next 100 mathematicians. He's fully prepared to leave the scaffolding behind and get into the ether of the equation and find the answer quicker. The bane of his existence, however, is finding the proof.'
Russell Crowe

It has been a tough decision to not work at this level. The day has come and I felt this is the moment
Michael Schumacher

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.
Charlotte Church

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Steven Wright

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
Erma Bombeck

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
George MacDonald

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on
Richard Gere

Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.
Liberty Ross

For six years I have been proud to work with some outstanding people in the England team management and in the England squad.
Andy Robinson

It's a surreal experience to be working on the show. I've been a huge fan since I was 18.
Kathryn Hunt

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida Tarbell

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud

I don't want my company to get incredibly large, nor can I be responsible for masses of people, nor do all those good dancers necessarily want to work for me, for a long period of time anyway.
Siobhan Davies

There's nothing our rulers [Labour government] enjoy more than banging up a decent, hard-working taxpayer, especially if they're suspected of voting Tory.
Richard Littlejohn

On good friend Nicole Kidman: 'I've never worked with her. I met her through a couple good girlfriends of mine. She has a great sense of humor. She laughs easily. I like hanging out with people who laugh easily. Contrary to popular opinion, I like to be a little silly.'
Russell Crowe

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
Dorothy L Sayers

It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.
Patrick Geddes

Worst of all, it is women who usually have to do, usually alone, all the dirty work of the kitchen and household, work that is unimportant, hard, tiresome, and soul-destroying
Lenin

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Marianne Moore

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way to calculate a web sites importance.
Larry Page

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
Alexander Fleming

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit
Hugh Nibley

I'm looking forward to getting back to EastEnders and working with everyone who has supported me throughout my time off.
Michelle Ryan

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
Bertrand Russell

I'm not touching the actual sonnets; I just offered it around as a practical thing. (on using the Complete Works of Shakespeare as toilet paper)
Susannah Moffat

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