Work Quotes - Page 19

• Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

  Robert Orben

  Inspirational, Funny, Good Morning

  "Hitting Your Peak: Financial Strength" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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• Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Sarcastic

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 04, 2012

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• The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.

  Shane MacGowan

  Spiritual, Drinking, Ambition

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• The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

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• Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Alarms, Clock

  "Picasso On Art: A Selection of Views".

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• I often work by avoidance.

  Brian Eno

  Avoidance

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• A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Cities, Society

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.189, 北戴河出版

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• In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

  Robert Breault

  Division Of Labor, Originals, Sinner

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• Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Teacher, Home, Kids

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• Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Discipline, Lenient, Masters

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• Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Desert, Lifelong, Trusted

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• Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

  Eric Butterworth

  People, Shows

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• His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.

  Joe Fafard

  Real, Past, Toronto

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• Unraveling the web of Penelope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Unraveling

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• The insignificant labor, the great create.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Labor, Insignificant

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

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• Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Law, Firsts, Parkinson's

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• For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Said, Accomplished, Pleasant

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• No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tasks, Done, World

  Woodrow Wilson (1972). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lasts, Form, Existence

  Letter to Eckermann, February 04, 1829.

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• Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Solitude, Toil

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• We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strive, Strife

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• Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Want, Things You Like, Do The Best

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• To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

  Frances G. Wickes

  Process, Backwards, Intuitive

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• Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

  Herman Melville

  Grief, Men, Hands

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Littles, Mathematical, Interest

  "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.

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