Useful Work Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

• Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. — Aldous Huxley
• Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and… — Grenville Kleiser
• Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God. — Milton S. Hershey
• Every hour of useful work is precious. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
• I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over… — William Zinsser
• Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer. — Robert Green Ingersoll
• There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I’m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing… — Saul Bass
• Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has… — David Ogilvy
• On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. — Dag Hammarskjold
• Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. — Grenville Kleiser
• My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. — Lloyd Alexander
• Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. — Arthur Bloch
• It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real… — Guy Davenport
• Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature… — Albert Einstein
• Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device… — Ambrose Bierce
• Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful… — Edward Abbey
• The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some… — Terry Pratchett
• The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by… — John Dewey
• Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep… — George Bernard Shaw

Who Wrote These Useful Work Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 21 Useful Work Quotes as follows:

• 2 Useful Work Quotes by Grenville Kleiser
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Lloyd Alexander
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Arthur Bloch
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Guy Davenport
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Albert Einstein
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Edward Abbey
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Useful Work Quote by John Dewey
• 1 Useful Work Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Bob Black
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Milton S. Hershey
• 1 Useful Work Quote by William Lyon Mackenzie King
• 1 Useful Work Quote by William Zinsser
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Saul Bass
• 1 Useful Work Quote by David Ogilvy
• 1 Useful Work Quote by Dag Hammarskjold