Work

(47 votes)   A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

William Morris
1834-1896, British Artist, Writer, Printer

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(47 votes)   Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Bernard M. Baruch
1870-1965, American Financier

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(47 votes)   My work is a game, a very serious game.

M.C. Escher

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(47 votes)   When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

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(46 votes)   A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Paul Valery
1871-1945, French Poet, Essayist

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(46 votes)   He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Don Marquis
1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist

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(46 votes)   In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Karl Marx
1818-1883, German Political Theorist, Social Philosopher

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(46 votes)   It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(46 votes)   The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Robert B. Reich

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(46 votes)   Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Sir William Osler
1849-1919, Canadian Physician

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(45 votes)   Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

J. Paul Getty
1892-1976, American Oil Tycoon, Billionaire

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(45 votes)   Hands that work are more blessed than Lips that pray.

Howard W. Hunter

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(45 votes)   To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Susan Blow
1843-?, American Educator, Established 1st Successful Public Kindergarten in US

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(45 votes)   To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Katherine Mansfield
1888-1923, New Zealand-born British Author

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(44 votes)   I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Charles Evans Hughes
1862-1948, American Jurist, Politician

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