"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
— Jerome K. Jerome

"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
— Charles Lamb

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy

"Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do."
— Oscar Wilde

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."
— Barack Obama

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade ?"
— Benjamin Franklin

"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' "
— Dave Barry

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
— Gustave Flaubert

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious."
— John Irving (The Hotel New Hampshire)

"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small, by giving you no time instead of it all...till you're so full of fear you can't function at all. A working class hero is something to be."
— John Lennon

"Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction."
— Anne Frank

"It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own."
— Harry S. Truman

"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."
— Confucius

"”People say, ‘What is the sense of our small effort?’ They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do.”
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— Dorothy Day

"If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to."
— Jim Henson (It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider)

"If you don't have time to do it right the 1st time then you must have time to do it over"
— Jocelyn Dixon

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
— Émile Zola

"'...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'

'What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'

'Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.'"
— John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces)

"Don't mistake activity with achievement."
— John Wooden

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste"
— Henry Ford

"Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time."
— Curtis Sittenfeld, The Man of My Dreams

"Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation."
— Alasdair Gray

""One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.""
— Rogers McWilliams

""God sells us all things at the price of labor.""
— Leonardo da Vinci

"When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit."
— Robert Rodriguez (Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player)

"If you can work anywhere, anytime, then pretty soon you're working everywhere all the time."
— Judy Nichols (Tree Huggers)

"Never in publishing history had a magazine risen so spectacularly and fallen to Earth with such a resounding thud."
— Sam Zuckerman

"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."
— Woodrow Wilson

"No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive."
— DR. Joyce Brothers

"Work to make Taj-mahal, people will remember you for the ages !!"
— Mukesh Ralhan

"A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to a different location oh photographic skill. The opposition is neatly summed up in Bioy Casares’s novel The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata (1989). The hero Nicolasito Almanza declares: ‘I am convinced that all of photography depends on the moment we press the release […] I believe that you’re a photographer if you know exactly when to press the release.’ In making this declaration he is responding to the opinion expressed by Mr Gruter, owner of a photographic laboratory: ‘[…] sometimes I wonder if the true work of the photographer doesn’t begin in the dark room, amid the trays and the enlarger.’"
— Clive Scott (Spoken Image)