Working Past 65

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. - Oscar Wilde

No, it's all in perfect working order. - Spike Milligan

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. - Harry Golden

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. - Steven Wright

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane

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

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. - Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill

There is no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary. - Donald Kimball

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine. - Christopher Plummer

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. - Margaret Mead

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. - Rita Mae Brown

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable. - Edgar Bronfman

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself on the public. - Robert Morley

Please leave my computer alone. The only cookies I want to get are the ones I can eat. - Heather Wolf

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost

I don't work out. If God wanted us to bend over, he'd put diamonds on the floor. - Joan Rivers

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort. - Adrian Belew

Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses. - Rodolfo Costa

Fears work into the mind like maggots in a corpse; they fester and boil and work to no good. - David C. Smith & Richard L. Tierney

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. - Allan Fromme

I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer. - Leonard Nimoy

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but the careers of those who work for him. - H.M.S. Burns

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death. - Lincoln Davis

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. - George Burns

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian

Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

If Obama resigns from office NOW, thereby doing a great service to the country, I will give him free lifetime golf at any one of my courses. - Donald Trump

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

Fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. - Miroslav Volf