Work Quotes

I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.

Chris Cornell

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company

Scott Adams

When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

Confucius

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

Eric Clapton

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.†

Annie Leibovitz

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

Kent Conrad

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice.

Dwight David Eisenhower

President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.

Rosa DeLauro

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

James Talent

One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Bertrand Russell

When you like your work every day is a holiday.

Frank Tyger

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Eric Hoffer