Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Penelope Lively

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

Marlene Dietrich

Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.

Marianne Moore

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Marianne Moore

Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.

Sherwood Anderson

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]

Nikola Tesla

Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Menander

The workman still is greater than his work.

Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.

Matthew Goode

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Now the work really begins. Everybody's going to have to have leveler heads.

Now that the season's over, I'm just going to work out, try to get better.

John Bolton

Negotiations continue, ... I'm going to work as long as it takes.

Joel Edgerton

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

From Day 1, it's been a work in progress.

Mona Singh

For Punjabis like me, we have to work a little harder on our body.

Dakota Johnson

I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.

I don't think it really matters. It just comes down to who is going to work harder.

For us, it's more of the same. We've been doing work with the VA for some time.

I get to work with them all day long.

If that's still not something you can do, we can work out an installment agreement.

Jason Calacanis

If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.

Patti Smith

I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.

Jean Ingelow

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.