Famous Quotes

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

Vladimir Nabokov on Work

More quotes about Work

• "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

  Confucius on Work

• "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

  Thomas A. Edison on Work

• "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

  Robert Frost on Work

• "Nothing will work unless you do."

  Maya Angelou on Work

More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

• "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

• "To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."

• "Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

• "Genius is an African who dreams up snow."

• "A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."