Work Awareness

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. - Aristotle

All happiness depends on courage and work. - Honore de Balzac

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

My dream job would be the Karma delivery service. - Bill Murray

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. - Milton Berle

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. - Sigmund Freud

I do not like work, even when somebody else is doing it. - Mark Twain

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

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. - Fernando Flores

It's a job never started that takes the longest to finish. - JRR Tolkien

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. - Nadia Comaneci

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin

My wife and I are getting remarried. Our divorce didn't work out. - Rodney Dangerfield

It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. - Proverb

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get. - Jack Nicholson

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

Never work just for money or power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. - Marian Wright Edelman

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges. - Jack Handy

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love. - Monique Roffey

You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work. - Hy Gardner

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did. - Donald Trump

Decide what you want, what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. - HL Hunt

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. - Mickey Rooney

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

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test. - Mark Zuckerberg

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had. - Jimmy Connors

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

If you get up in the morning and you say, 'I got to go to work. How can I get out of this?' you're not happy. - Red Auerbach

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

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

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; and third, common sense. - Thomas Edison

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. - William Arthur Ward

Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. - Simon Sinek

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. - Martin H. Fischer

He had a sense of irony that ruled his life, made it impossible for him to use his considerable brains in any kind of serious job. Kind of like me. - Neal Stephenson