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Work Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
- Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
- My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces…
- I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter…
- When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors.…
- The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've…
- Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom…
- He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school.…
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