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Work Quotes by Stephen Leacock
- When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
- Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
- Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at…
- It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never…
- Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If…
- I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's…
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