“When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.”
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Laurence Peter
2 quotes“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
Malcolm Gladwell
2 quotes“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”
Thomas Edison
2 quotes“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Charles Baudelaire
2 quotes“Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
Thomas Carlyle
2 quotes“Give me a man who sings at his work.”
Ogden Nash
2 quotes“If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.”
Richard Bach
2 quotes“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”
Anne Frank
1 quote“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
Sophocles
1 quote“Without labor nothing prospers.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1 quote“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”
Karl Lagerfeld
1 quote“Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.”
Annie Dillard
1 quote“Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.”