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Peter Gibbons4 quotes
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, um, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life. — Peter Gibbons · 1999Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms, and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements! — Peter Gibbons · 1999I don’t like my job and I don’t think I’m gonna go anymore. — Peter Gibbons · 1999I'd say in a given week, I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work. — Peter Gibbons · 1999William Shakespeare2 quotes
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. — William Shakespeare · 1603If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. — William Shakespeare · 1597Alfred Tennyson1 quote
Ah, why
Should life all labor be? — Alfred Tennyson · 1832Andy Warhol1 quote
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol · 1975Anton Chekhov1 quote
Man must work by the sweat of his brow whatever his class, and that should make up the whole meaning and purpose of his life and happiness and contentment. — Anton Chekhov · 1901Benjamin Franklin1 quote
When men are employ'd, they are best content'd; for on the days they worked they were good-natur'd and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome. — Benjamin Franklin · 1790Bertrand Russell1 quote
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid. — Bertrand Russell · 1932Bill Lumbergh1 quote
I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow. — Bill Lumbergh · 1999Booker T. Washington1 quote
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington · 1900C. Northcote Parkinson1 quote
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson · 1955Cicero1 quote
For it is commonly said: completed labors are pleasant. — Cicero · 45 BCDr. Seuss1 quote
And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked. — Dr. Seuss · 1939Female Temp1 quote
Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays. — Female Temp · 1999Francis Quarles1 quote
We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil;
We tire the night in thought, the day in toil. — Francis Quarles · 1635Fyodor Dostoevsky1 quote
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1862George MacDonald1 quote
Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald · 1872God1 quote
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. — God · 1405 BCHansel1 quote
I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot. — Hansel · 2001Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1840Horace1 quote
Make a fortune; a fortune, if you can, honestly; if not, a fortune by any means. — Horace · 21 BCJerome K. Jerome1 quote
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. — Jerome K. Jerome · 1889John Ashbery1 quote
As I sit looking out of a window of the building
I wish I did not have to write the instruction manual on the uses of a new metal.
I look down into the street and see people, each walking with an inner peace,
And envy them-they are so far away from me!
Not one of them has to worry about getting out this manual on schedule. — John Ashbery · 1956Jonas Salk1 quote
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. — Jonas Salk · 2001Joseph Conrad1 quote
I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know. — Joseph Conrad · 1899Kazuo Ishiguro1 quote
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. — Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989Leonardo da Vinci1 quote
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1568Logan Pearsall Smith1 quote
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. — Logan Pearsall Smith · 1931Mark Twain1 quote
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. — Mark Twain · 1876Pierre Auguste Renoir1 quote
Life is much more fun when you have to worry about money coming in. — Pierre Auguste RenoirR.G. Collingwood1 quote
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. — R.G. Collingwood · 1924