Work Quotes

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

Antony Hewish

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Agatha Christie

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.

Seth Godin

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Tina Fey

It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself.

Gertrude B. Elion

I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.

Carli Anne Lloyd Hollins

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

Allan Lokos

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

Now, partly that was work, and partly that was brains, but very largely it was having the guts, the guts to be immodest in the right way.

Edwin H. Land

into many major trials. For a handsome fee, Pankey and his staff would work all sorts

John Grisham

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

Tom Robbins