I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. Ellen DeGeneres on work
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems. James Cash Penney on work
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle on work
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. Andy Warhol on work
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. James A. Baldwin on work
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. Arthur Schopenhauer on work
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. Leo Tolstoy on work
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' Max Planck on work
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. Richard Dawkins on work
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on work
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. Louis L'Amour on work
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you. Ray Bradbury on work
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. Thomas Carlyle on work
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung on work
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? Barbra Streisand on work
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. John Ruskin on work
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on work
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. T. S. Eliot on work
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. Gustave Flaubert on work
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. Orson Welles on work