Work Quotes

“Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?”

-- Cate Blanchett

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”

-- Thomas A. Edison

“I think the best place to work in football is England.”

-- Jose Mourinho

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”

-- Pearl S. Buck

“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”

-- Herman Melville

“Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.”

-- Walter Annenberg

“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

“From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.”

-- Cesar Chavez

“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”

-- Andre Gide