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
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. James Levine
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. C. Northcote Parkinson
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
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. Orson Scott Card
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. Anna Pavlova
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
I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job. Walter Wager
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
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.
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
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Colin Powell
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Pope Paul VI