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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison
If you're too busy to help those around you succeed, you're too busy.
Source Unknown
If you are pre-occupied with life and death then you aren't ready for heaven.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
I think I can work with any type of actor.
Ang Lee
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
Jack Welch
We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.
Jeff Davidson
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Voltaire
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
Leonard Cohen
The work will stand, no matter what.
Meryl Streep
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
Philip Streifer
