Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Richard Nelson Bolles
Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done
Thomas Carlyle
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
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