Work Quotes

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Kurt Vonnegut

This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be.

Kurt Vonnegut

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Josephine Tessier

People travel for the same reason they collect works of art: because the best people do it

Aldous Huxley

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

Tia Mowry

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Don Marquis

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Frederick Farrar

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

If you can't be bothered to work on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.

Jay Chiat, Unofficial work code

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of life.

Paulo Coelho

Every really able man, in whatever direction he work, - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.

Steve Jobs

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

Debra Winger

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Jose Marti

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

Danny Kaye

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

Will Smith

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

James Weldon Johnson

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety

Samuel Johnson