| Work Quotes |
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
-- Bette Davis
One trouble with being unemployed is that the moment you wake up each day you're on the job.
-- Sam Ewing
Adam Cook is my name. I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
-- Oscar Levant - An American in Paris (1951)
All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
-- Steve Martin – Bilko (1996)
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.
-- Sigmund Freud
Pity your boss. The poor guy has to get up early to see who comes in late.
-- Jacob Braude
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
-- Slappy White
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
-- Jerome K Jerome (Three Men in a Boat, 1889)
A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error.
-- Dennis Miller
Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime.
-- Scott Adams (Dilbert, 1998)
An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.
-- Sam Ewing
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
-- John Cleese
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
-- Christopher Hampton
Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.
-- Leslie Nielsen
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-- Elbert Hubbard
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams
I was a bank teller. That was a great job. I was bringing home $450,000 a week.
-- Joel Lindley
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
-- Bette Davis
You've achieved success in your field when you dont know whether what youre doing is work or play.
-- Warren Beatty
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
-- Frank Zappa (Loose Talk, 1980)
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
-- Margaret Carty
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-- Thomas Edison
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- Robert Frost
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
-- Colleen C. Barrett
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
-- Homer Simpson
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
-- Lane Kirkland
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
-- Vince Lombardi
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