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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.

The humblest workman has his place, Which no one else can fill.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

The inlet of a man's mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed by a continued supply of new ideas which he puts to work with purpose, and if there is no outlet in action, his mind becomes stagnant. Such a mind is a danger to the individual who owns it and is useless to the community.

The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.

The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the changes are arrived at, seems to me the most important duty in the whole field of management.

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress upon the minds of the youth of Zion the eloquence, the inexpressible eloquence of work, I shall feel fully repaid.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not...

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

The more you think, the more time you have.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.

The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that brought ruin down on her head? And did my [fired white-collar workers] boot-camp mates cause the layoffs that drove them out of their jobs by "vibrating" at a layoff-related frequency? It seems inexcusably cruel to tell people who have reach some kind of personal nadir that their probem is entirely of their own making.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.