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An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Dee Hock

Businessman · American

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Susan B. Anthony

Activist · American · 1820 – 1906

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

Marilyn Hacker

Poet · American · b. 1942

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Barry Levinson

Director · American · b. 1922

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

Walid Jumblatt

Politician · Lebanese · b. 1949

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

Patrice Leconte

Director · French · b. 1947

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

Poet · French · 1821 – 1867

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

C. Everett Koop

Public Servant · American · b. 1916

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

Sara Paretsky

Author · American · b. 1947

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

Max Beckmann

Artist · German · 1884 – 1950

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Arnold Bennett

Novelist · English · 1867 – 1931

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Annie Dillard

Author · American · b. 1945

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist · Russian · 1828 – 1910

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

Norman MacCaig

Poet · Scottish · 1910 – 1996

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

Shirin Ebadi

Lawyer · Iranian · b. 1947

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Scientist · Russian · 1834 – 1907

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

Walter Jon Williams

Writer · American · b. 1953

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Audre Lorde

Poet · American · b. 1934

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

David Geffen

Businessman · American · b. 1943

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

Toni Morrison

Novelist · American · b. 1931

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Charles Hodge

Theologian · American

Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

Jeff Gannon

Journalist · American

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

Duane G. Carey

Astronaut · American · b. 1957

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Theologian · English · 1828 – 1889

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

Richard King

Director

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Marianne Williamson

Author · American · b. 1952

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.

Gijs de Vries

Politician · Dutch · b. 1956

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Bob Riley

Politician · American

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

William Feather

Author · American · 1889 – 1981

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Mathematician · French · 1924 – 2010

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

Brent Scowcroft

Public Servant · American · b. 1925

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Og Mandino

Author · American · 1923 – 1996

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

T. S. Eliot

Poet · American · 1888 – 1965

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Karl Marx

Philosopher · German · 1818 – 1883

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

Marc Garneau

Astronaut · Canadian · b. 1949

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

Zach Wamp

Politician · American · b. 1957

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

Darren Aronofsky

Director · American · b. 1969

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Irving Babbitt

Critic · American · 1865 – 1933

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Charles de Gaulle

Leader · 1890 – 1970

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

Writer · American · 1883 – 1970

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Jessamyn West

Author · American · 1902 – 1984

I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.

John Dingell

Politician · American · b. 1926

Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris.

Brian Celio

Novelist · American · b. 1981

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

Anish Kapoor

Artist · Indian

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Ed Bradley

Journalist · American · b. 1941

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.

Brian De Palma

Director · American · b. 1940

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

Tom Allen

Politician · American · b. 1945

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