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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Thomas Carlyle
A man grows most tired while standing still.
Chinese Proverb
See, winners embrace hard work.
Lou Holtz
If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
Jodi Picoult
It's a job -- someone's gotta do it. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine. On what it's like kissing sex symbol Jennifer Aniston
David Schwimmer
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Andre Maurois
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
Paul Cezanne
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Alva Edison
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.
Randy Moss
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
Dr. Walter Smith
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard Baruch
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Gore Vidal
