Work Quotes - Page 40

• If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.

  Helen Caldicott

  Running, World, Earth

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• One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Men, Law

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• Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors,
  And all this our very utmost toil
  Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength
  Whether in oxen or in men, we dull
  The edges of our ploughshares, and in return
  Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed,
  And so today the farmer shakes his head,
  More and more often sighing that his work,
  The labour of his hands, has come to naught.

  Lucretius

  Mean, Men, Oxen

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• Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.

  Donald Barthelme

  Men, Dollars, Another Day

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

  David Riesman

  Artist, Class, Play

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

  David Riesman

  May, Helping, Executives

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.176, Transaction Publishers

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• As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

  Lance Morrow

  Country, Ethics, Wealth

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• It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them: so it is in a moral as well as a natural way: all the prudence and pains in the world avail nothing without God. So saith the Psalmist, in Psalm cxxvii. 2.

  John Flavel

  Pain, Men, Arms

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.387

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• There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

  Greg LeMond

  Long, Hardwork, Willing

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• A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Perfect, Works Of Art

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

  Jodie Foster

  Forever, Needs, Cruise

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• I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

  Joe Pesci

  Jobs, Wall, Humble

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• Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

  Frank Zappa

  Moving, Dental Floss, Insanity

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• Management must manage!

  Harold Geneen

  Management, Manage

  "Managing" by Harold Geneen, Geneen and Moscow, Granada Publishing Ltd., 1985.

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• Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

  Harold Geneen

  Native American, Achieve, Results

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, p. 86, 1984.

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• Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

  Paul O'Grady

  Fun, Eye, Bird

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• We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.

  Rebecca McCann

  Mind, May, Pay

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• When you work for the thing you believe in You're rich though the whole way is rough- But work that is simply for money Will never quite pay you enough.

  Rebecca McCann

  Believe, Pay, Never Quit

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• Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it.

  Rebecca McCann

  Greed, Should, Weary

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• If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

  John W. Gardner

  Mean, Responsibility, Golf

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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• It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

  Louis L'Amour

  Needs, Done, Emotion

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “Last of the Breed”, p.149, Bantam

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• Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

  Robert Updegraff

  Adversity, Complaining, Income

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• The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

  Cyril Connolly

  Book, Writing, People

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• In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the happiness that comes from knowing that what you do is important, that what you do makes a difference in the lives of the people you serve.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Jobs, Differences, Knowing

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• Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

  Alan Clark

  Apology, Giving, Wrecks

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