Work Quotes
“The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.”
“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.”
-- Peter McWilliams
“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.”
-- Thomas J. Watson
“While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.”
-- Mattie Stepanek
“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”
-- Helen Keller
“I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.”
-- Don Cheadle
“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