Painting The Center Line

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands. - Fred Perry

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles. - Joseph B Wirthlin

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. - Pearl Bailey

Work before pleasure - for there is no real pleasure without work. - Unknown

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you. - Stephen Covey

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Dave Barry

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. - John Wooden

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. - William Osler

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

I believe in moderation. I work on genealogy only on days that end in 'y'. - Richard Thiesen

When you work the buttons here, see, it develops what ya call the digitalis skills. - Archie Bunker

Work as if you were to live a hundred years.
Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. - Benjamin Franklin

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

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

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. - Michelene Wandor

The highest reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what you become by it. - John C Maxwell

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

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. - Joseph Joubert

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John Rockefeller

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. - Ann Landers

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done, and done right. - Walt Disney

President Ford tells us all to bite the bullet and Betsy Ford goes on TV and shoots off her mouth. - Archie Bunker

If A is success in life, then A = X + Y + Z. Work is X, play is Y, and Z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow. - Celia Cruz

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. - Patrick Swayze

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

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

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

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. - Paulo Coelho

If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies because you never know when you'll have to work with them. - Lana Turner

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. - Andre Gide

Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground. - Evan Spiegel

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. - Bernie Taupin

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. - Noam Chomsky