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A great demand today is that work should be interesting. This is a recent development in human history, and workers in field or factory over the centuries would have been greatly puzzled by it.

George Watson

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards.

Judith S. Marin

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Henry Ward Beecher

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

My work is a game, a very serious game.

M. C. Escher

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...

George Carlin

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

Rosa Parks

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."

Barbara Ehrenreich

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

Francoise de Motteville

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Henry David Thoreau

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Mark Twain

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The object of living is work, experience, happiness

Henry Ford

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Felix Frankfurter

Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning

Igor Stravinsky

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Flaubert

Give me love and work - these two only

William Morris

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt

Max Beerbohm

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Louise Bogan

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