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In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
John F. Kennedy
The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
Ambrose Bierce
And if I didn't know better, I'd say they were doing God's work. Let them fear us. That's the thing -- let them fear us.
Christopher Hitchens
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Blaise Pascal
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
While a person gets they can never lose.
Scottish Proverb
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
André Gide
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George Carlin
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work Is the Signal, Email Is the Noise
Anonymous
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like 5 minutes. If you are doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, 5 minutes feels like an hour.
Sir Ken Robinson
