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"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
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"The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies." »Sorin Cerin
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"Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." »Vince Lombardi
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"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." »Vince Lombardi
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"Old creature with a sore leg (reference to Elizabeth I- he was incorrectly told she limped because of a varicose vein)" »King Henry III of France
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"To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination." »Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"You till be glad to know the President is practicing safe snacks. in reference to her husband's fainting spell caused by a pretzel" »Laura Bush
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"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
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"Putain Public (reference to Elizabeth I- means public whore)" »King Henry III of France
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"There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." »Donald J. Adams
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man." »John Selden
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself." »Charles Baudelaire
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"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
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"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"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
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"...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
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"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
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"You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children." »Pablo Casals
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"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment." »Robert Benchley
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work." »Kahlil Gibran
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"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
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"All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences." »Albert Einstein
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