Work Quotes

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To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats. — Jacques Barzun
Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same… — Jacques Barzun
Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis… — David Shields
It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life,… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments,… — Jerzy Grotowski
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing… — Herbert Marcuse
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity. — Herbert Marcuse
I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction — Jurgen Habermas
Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work… — Karl Marx
The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does… — Karl Marx
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because… — Karl Marx
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I… — Michel Foucault
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that… — Hannah Arendt
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose… — Gilles Deleuze
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. — Homer
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration. — Plutarch
I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud… — Roger Federer
Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because… — Roger Federer
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work… — Rafael Nadal
When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to… — Rafael Nadal
That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to… — Lleyton Hewitt
Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French… — Lleyton Hewitt
I wanted to work towards the four majors and the Davis Cup. I know to a lot of people it may not mean too much,… — Lleyton Hewitt

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