Work Quotes

The days you work are the best days

Georgia O\'Keeffe

All scientists must communicate their work, for what is the point of learning new things about how the world works if you don't tell anyone about them?

Jim Al-Khalili

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

Carl David Anderson

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

Michelangelo Antonioni

There is no work so mean, but it would amply serve me to furnish me with sustenance.

Antisthenes

I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

St. Augustine of Hippo

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Mustafa Kemal Atatrk

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

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

Richard Bach

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up. Before I did one show, they were, like 'Why do you want to do this? Do you know that 90 percent of talk shows don't get a second season? You're a model. People just see you as a model.'

Tyra Lynne Banks

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

Anne Bancroft

Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell

But at some point, you know that you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you!

Glenn Beck

The greatest work of the composer is often sublimation, that is, the deflection of energies, thoughts, occurrences, psychological and physical reactions, into socially constructive or creative channels.

Marion Bauer

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

John Barrowman

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Edgar Bergen

Becketts work is an embarrassment to the Void.

Donald Barthelme

I begin my work at about nine or ten o'clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Alexander Graham Bell

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Gregory Benford

If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

Samuel Beckett

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

Larry Joe Bird

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