Work Quotes
“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.”
“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.”
-- George MacDonald
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
-- Mark Twain
“I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.”
-- James Dean
“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”
-- Stephen Hawking
“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”
-- Robert Frost
“There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.”
-- Richard Nelson Bolles