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Work Quotes by E F Schumacher
- Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no…
- Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of…
- The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining…
- We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.
- That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no…
- It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.
- It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to…
More Work Quotes
- 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