Work

(25 votes)   Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(24 votes)   Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad.

Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994

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(24 votes)   Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(24 votes)   It's not the number of hours one puts in that counts, but what one puts into the hours.

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(24 votes)   The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

Milo Bloom

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(24 votes)   There is no excellence without labor.

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(24 votes)   When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Gary Sinise
1955-, American Actor, Director, Producer, Stage director

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(24 votes)   Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(23 votes)   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

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(23 votes)   If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

George C. Hubbs

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(23 votes)   Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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(23 votes)   You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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(22 votes)   Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

J. P. Mcevoy

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(22 votes)   The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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(21 votes)   In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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