| "When I feel bad, I work. When I have problems, when I'm depressed, when I'm bored with life, I sit down to my work. There are probably other prescriptions, but I don't know them. Or they don't work for me. You want my advice -- here it is Go and work. Thank God that people like you and me need only paper and pencil to work." »Strugatsky |
| "Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." »Vince Lombardi |
| "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." »Anais Nin |
| "As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook." »Joseph Conrad |
| "work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom |
| "Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers." »Leo C. Rosten |
| "If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done." »Dale Carnegie |
| "If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work." »Ogden Nash |
| "If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity." »Daniel Webster |
| "I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work." »William Ernest Hocking |
| "It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself." »Charles Baudelaire |
| "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work." »John Ruskin |
| "For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." »Rainer Maria Rilke |
| "Do your work not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishings sake--that little more which is worth all the rest." »Dean Briggs |
| "You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children." »Pablo Casals |
| "Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment." »Robert Benchley |
| "I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know." »Joseph Conrad |
| "You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." »Isaac Asimov |
| "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing." »Thomas Alva Edison |
| "If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears." »Jim Dietz |
| "People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get." »Frederick Douglas |
| "The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life." »Charles Schwab |
| "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery." »Maxim Gorky |
| "As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in." »Edward Bedore |
| "I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)" »Albert Einstein |
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