Work Quotes

“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”

-- Tom Stoppard

“You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.”

-- Ray Bradbury

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

-- Theodore Isaac Rubin

“I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.”

-- Neil Armstrong

“We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.”

-- Kevin Kelly

“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

-- Michael Jordan

“Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.”

-- Milton Friedman

“I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.”

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.”

-- Leigh Steinberg

“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.”

-- Will Rogers