Useful Work Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
— Aldous Huxley
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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
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Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.
— Milton S. Hershey
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Every hour of useful work is precious.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
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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
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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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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
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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
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On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.
— Grenville Kleiser
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
— Lloyd Alexander
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: