A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
Bill Budge

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
Donald Norman

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
Leigh Steinberg

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert


Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
Gloria Steinem

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Edgar Winter