Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only one more season. I have been wrestling with the timing of announcing that decision. After seeing the outstanding attitude and work ethic of this team, I came to the conclusion that it's best to get the announcement out of the way now so we can focus on the season and avoid the repeated distractions that come from questions about my retirement.

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.

After you get a job and before you have to do it. Nothing beats that.

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy - it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.

All progress is experimental.

All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself. ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.