3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That’s not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.
3 December 2020 Doug Larson For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Nabokov A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
3 December 2020 Tim McGraw I have three daughters, so I can’t be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids – especially daughters – they know how to work you. They’re a lot smarter than we are, that’s for sure. But I’ll be more tough on their boyfriends.
3 December 2020 Agha Hasan Abedi The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
3 December 2020 Jim Morrison It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.
3 December 2020 Adam Lambert The biggest risk I’ve ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
3 December 2020 Kris Kristofferson Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don’t starve myself in an extremist way. You’re not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I’d be devastated.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
3 December 2020 Angela Davis Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
3 December 2020 Eugene V. Debs Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most – that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
3 December 2020 Gore Vidal The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
