Work Quotes - Page 29

• Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

  Dweezil Zappa

  People, Wells, Havens

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• No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

  David O. McKay

  Family, Home, Miracle

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• I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.

  Dick York

  Pain, Coffee, Exercise

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• A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

  William Frederick Book

  Men, Energy, Driven

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• See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rewards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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• Practice non-action. Work without doing.

  Laozi

  Practice, Action, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Discovery, Effort

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• I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hours In The Day, Imagine, Poor

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.121, A&C Black

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• Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong, Justice, Desire

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• No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

  James Russell Lowell

  Blessed, Men, Hands

  'A Glance Behind the Curtain' (1844)

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• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Home, Mean, Doe

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• With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Powerful, Phones, Connections

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• The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Music, Men, Pioneers

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Home, Views

  "The Green Options". May 29, 2007.

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• My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

  Guy Kawasaki

  World, Week, Hours

  Guy Kawasaki (2008). “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition”, p.61, Penguin

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• Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Night, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

  John Zorn

  Home, Phones, Two

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• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Together, World

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Christian, Gdp, Islam

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• And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Writing, Order, Justice

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• In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside."

  James Keller

  Heart, Garden, Light

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• The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

  Whitney M. Young

  Unemployment, World, Unemployed

  "Independent Lens. The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Taken, Butterfly, Knowledge

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• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Hard Work, Film, Hard

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• We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Religious, Way, Limits

  "Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Religion in Russia". www.forerunner.com. May 1, 1996.

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