Work Done Quotes

148 quotes by 126 authors

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so… — Robert Benchley
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. — Thomas Carlyle
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. — Thomas Carlyle
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world… — Dale Carnegie
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. — Coco Chanel
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. — Noam Chomsky
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage… — Maya Angelou
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I… — Fiona Apple
If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal… — Robert Pozen
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
In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the… — Rudolf Steiner
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. — Agha Hasan Abedi
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is… — Anne Lamott
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well… — Ray Bradbury
Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance. — Ray Bradbury
People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people — Colin Powell
When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist. — Coco Lee
What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he… — Viktor E. Frankl
I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair… — Rachel Bilson
I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as… — Sylvester Stallone

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