Work Quotes
“And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.”
“It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.”
-- Barack Obama
“O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.”
-- Abu Bakr
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.”
-- Steve Jobs
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
-- Eugene Delacroix