The Joe-kster's Desk

You got a very warfed sense of humor. - Archie Bunker

First get the job; then get the job done. - Unknown

Work is less boring than amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire

A poor joke must invent its own laughter. - Latin Proverb

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. - Peter Ustinov

You have as much laughter as you have faith. - Martin Luther

Primitive Artist: An amateur whose work sells - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. - Larry Gelbart

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - e e cummings

Resolve to work all of the time that you are at work. - Peter Legge

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. - Erma Bombeck

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? - Edgar Bergen

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at. - Tina Fey

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. - Thomas Edison

With his work, as with a glove, a man feels the universe. - Tomas Transtromer

Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work. - Marilyn Suttle

When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response. - John Rhys-Davies

If the plan does not work, change the plan, but never the goal. - Unknown

From each according to his ability, to each according to his work - Claude de Rouvroy

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. - Edward de Bono

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. - James Ling

I want to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously. - William K Zinsser

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. - Elbert Hubbard

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J.M. Barrie

Communism is like prohibition - it's a good idea but it won't work. - Will Rogers

When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't. - Gary Goetzman

Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job. - Chris Pine

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson

The best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt

Laughter is a uniting force; it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier. - Montaigne

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart. - Carmen Electra

Work for the Lord. The pay isn't much, but the retirement plan is out of this world. - Unknown

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn? - Bob Hope

With all the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. - Abraham Lincoln

Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end. - Lori Myers

Zymurgy’s Law of Volunteer Labour: People are always available for work in the past tense - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it. - Allen Klein

Dear heart, please stop getting involved in everything. You job is to pump blood, that's it. - Unknown

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business. - Harvey Mackay

The reason your golf pro tells you to keep your head down is so that you can't see him laughing. - Phyllis Diller

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. - Thomas Edison

The secret to living well and longer is: EAT half; WALK double; LAUGH triple; and LOVE without measure. - Unknown

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing. - Max Irons

My cell phone is acting up - I keep pressing the home button but when I look around, I'm still at work. - Unknown

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. - Satchel Paige

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

One of the endearing things about mathematicians is the extent to which they will go to avoid doing any real work. - Matthew Pordage

Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out. - Chuck Jones

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. - Simon Wiesenthal

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another. - Joyce Carol Oates

People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work. - Marilyn Suttle

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. - Amy Alcott

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. - Bruce Barton

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. - Jessamyn West

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

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

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly. - Harvey Mackay

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. - Criss Jami

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectation. - Norman Cousins

I'm a nervous laugher. Like when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything. - Jack McBrayer

Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you. - Malaika A. Khan