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Work Quotes

Would you rehire – or work for – someone who ran your business into the ground? And who always does what’s best for himself or herself – even when it hurts the company? And whose reckless decisions put you in danger? And who spends more time tweeting than working? If the answer is no: Why the hell would we ever rehire Donald Trump for another four years?

– Michael Bloomberg

At Democratic National Convention.

There is no vaccine for racism. We’ve got to do the work. For George Floyd; for Breonna Taylor; for the lives of too many others to name. We’ve got to do the work to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law. Because, none of us are free, until all of us are free.

– Kamala Harris

Accepting Democratic Party nomination for Vice President of U.S.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

– Kamala Harris

The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: First Contact (1996 Film).

I never did anything worth doing by accident - Thomas A. Edison Quote

In Motivational

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

– Thomas A. Edison

Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well.

– E. Merrill Root

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

– Thomas Jefferson

Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.

– Hassanal Bolkiah

The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn’t work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.

– Giambattista Valli

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

– Henry David Thoreau

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

– Havelock Ellis

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don’t really think it is.

– H. R. Giger

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That’s the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That’s part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

– Harlan Coben

I’ve felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you’re dealing in the negativity of things. I don’t like that. I’d rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

– Hale Irwin

Well unfortunately I didn’t work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all.

– Harvey Keitel

My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not to touch it. But I’d go back and touch it anyway. I gained a respect for the turntables when I was a kid. When I was a teenager, I came up with a ‘cueing system’ to work the turntables because they didn’t have it at that time.

– Grandmaster Flash

We’re quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn’t work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

– Guy Ritchie

I’m a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

– Gail Kelly

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn’t ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

– Harrison Ford

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It’s really cool.

– Harold Perrineau

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly’s in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

– Gregory Maguire

It was my father who – after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a ‘borrowed’ key and knocked down a wall of the garage – convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.

– H. Robert Horvitz

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

– Guy Ritchie

I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it’s part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.

– Giovanni Ribisi

I’m not a good time-off person. I’m awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn’t work. That really was the worst bit.

– Gary Barlow

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

– Howard Gardner

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.

– Gunter Grass

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

– Hosea Ballou

I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

– Golshifteh Farahani

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