Work Quotes

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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If food were free, why work? — Douglas Horton
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Work hard, play hard. — Wiz Khalifa
The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself — Brian Tracy
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets… — Thomas Carlyle
Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this… — Reba McEntire
Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best… — Wilferd Peterson
Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more… — Ayn Rand
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. — Norman Mailer
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,… — Robert Burns
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many… — Michio Kaku
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. — Althea Gibson
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. — Pablo Picasso
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. — Robert Mapplethorpe
I know of no genius but the genius of hard work. — J M W Turner
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or… — Freya Stark
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us. — Lawren Harris
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality… — Lee Krasner
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!' — Ken Danby
There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover. — Philip Guston
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls… — Philip Guston
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle... — Balthus

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