Quotes by Authors - Page 38

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?
Katherine Graham
Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination.
Alice Koller
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary a batch of technical skills and equipment and perhaps a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things of their complexity fascination and unexpectedness.
Annie Dillard
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Julia Child
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy
Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
Augusta Evans
Do your duty until it becomes your joy.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I know a lot of people think it's monotonous down the black lines over and over but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.
Tracy Caulkins
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
Sydney Smith
If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.
Julia Child
You have to do what you love to do not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
Lucinda Basset
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
Marsha Sinetar
Here I am where I ought to be.
Louise Erdrich
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead
Ambition is destruction only competence matters.
Jill Robinson
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Don't be afraid of hard work.
Marian Wright Edelman
When I die my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.
Gloria Swanson
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller
Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith
Like plowing housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs milk or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
Winifred Holtby
Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.
Anonymous
The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger. ... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated why it's just as good as sex.
Lou Centlivre
When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
Tennessee Williams
Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.
Mary Daly
Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
Arthur Christopher Benson
The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson
A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.
George Ade
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
J.G. Holland
Work is the inevitable condition of human life the true source of human welfare.
Leo Tolstoy
Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people.
John F Kennedy
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Albert Camus
Work is more fun than fun.
Noël Coward
God gave man work not to burden him but to bless him and useful work willingly cheerfully effectively done has always been the finest expression of the human spirit.
Walter R. Courtenay
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjöld
A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.
Anonymous
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
G.K. Chesterton
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Because it is less structured than work leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. Workaholics practically climb the wall when they can't work.
Marilyn Machlowitz
When white-collar people get jobs they sell not only their time and energy but their personalities as well. They sell by week or month their smiles and their kindly gestures and they must practise prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
C. Wright Mills
If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Most people like hard work particularly when they're paying for it.
Franklin P. Jones
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.
William Faulkner
One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Anonymous
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome