Work Quotes About Effort & Professional Life – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

Lucian Freud

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Andre Maurois

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

George Sand

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

Rick Perry

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

Willa Cather

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

Ken Burns

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Paulo Coelho

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

Richard Serra

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Jacques Barzun

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

George Washington

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Doris Lessing

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

Annie Leibovitz

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Howard Nemerov

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

James Cash Penney

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

John Thorn

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

Kathy Acker

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

Jim Fowler

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

John James Audubon

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Cyril Connolly

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

Leigh Steinberg

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

Walter Ulbricht

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

Susan George

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Alfred Hitchcock

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Joseph Barbera

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

Francis Ford Coppola

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

Robert Shea

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Damien Hirst

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

Nancy Pelosi

People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.

Joel Coen

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.

James Cash Penney

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

Joseph Hume

It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.

Christo

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

James Allen

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Ramakrishna

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Mother Teresa

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

W. Edwards Deming

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

Newt Gingrich

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

Benjamin Tucker

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Booker T. Washington