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I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.
Joe Pesci
Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
Sean O'Casey
Work keeps at bay, three great evils -- boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
John Lennon
Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The work praises the man.
Proverb
Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.
Hal Borland
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Milton Friedman
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale
Better to burn out than rust out.
Neil Young
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
Darryl F. Zanuck
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Charlie McCarthy
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from non-successful ones is perseverance.
Steve Jobs, Jobs quote from 1995
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
Henry David Thoreau
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge
To get the whole world out of bedAnd washed, and dressed, and warmed, and fed,To work, and back to bed again,Believe me, Saul, costs worlds of pain.
John Edward Masefield, The Everl
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
