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It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
Ron Livingston on work

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr on work

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
Lawrence Welk on work

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 on work

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
Dmitri Mendeleev on work

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

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

I'm working myself to death.
Alan Ladd on work

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering on work

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
James Levine on work

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson on work

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 on work

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller on work

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card on work

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova on work

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
Walter Gilbert on work

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
Walter Wager on work

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Richard Nelson Bolles on work

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr. on work

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan on work