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Work Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
- No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
- Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
- Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their…
- My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to…
- I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider…
- I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with…
- The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his…
- The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an…
- In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
- Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to…
- Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same…
- One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
- But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the…
- One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring…
- One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- 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…
- A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
- I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous,…
- Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
- Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater…
- If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount…
- The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
- The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.
- Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach