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- To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
- Ramakrishna on Work
- To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
- Simone Weil on Work
- Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.
- Mitt Romney on Work
- Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.
- Will Smith on Work
- Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
- Walter Annenberg on Work
- Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.
- Phyllis Diller on Work
- Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Work
- Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
- Orson Scott Card on Work
- Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
- Barbara Kingsolver on Work
- We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
- Colin Powell on Work
- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- Benjamin Franklin on Work
- We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
- Earl Nightingale on Work
- We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
- Jose Marti on Work
- We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
- Kevin Kelly on Work
- We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy on Work
- We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
- Bo Bennett on Work
- We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
- Hillary Clinton on Work
- We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castenada on Work
- We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
- Robert Kiyosaki on Work
- We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
- Milton Friedman on Work
- We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
- Michelle Obama on Work
- We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
- We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
- Barack Obama on Work
- We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
- Alvar Aalto on Work
- We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
- David Cameron on Work
- We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
- Adlai E. Stevenson on Work
- We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
- Mary Kay Ash on Work
- We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
- Henry James on Work
- We work to become, not to acquire.
- Elbert Hubbard on Work
- We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
- Tennessee Williams on Work
- We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
- Charlie Sheen on Work
- We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.
- Pete Coors on Work
- Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
- Mel Brooks on Work
- What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin on Work
- What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
- William Shakespeare on Work
- What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.
- Joan Rivers on Work
- What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.
- Kim Weston on Work
- What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
- Oprah Winfrey on Work
- What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
- Rick Perry on Work
- What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
- Erykah Badu on Work
- What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
- What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
- Jackie Kennedy on Work
- What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
- Margaret Thatcher on Work
- 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 on Work
- What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
- Pearl Bailey on Work
- What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
- Julia Cameron on Work
- Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
- P. T. Barnum on Work
- Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work
- When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
- Calvin Coolidge on Work
- When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
- Don Marquis on Work
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