Mexican Starfish

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. - Mark Twain

Work: The thing that interferes with golf. - Frank Dane

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm. - John Muir

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

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. - Harry Golden

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. - George D. Prentice

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty. - Voltaire

A bad job with a good boss is better than a good job with a bad boss. - Unknown

The traveler with empty pockets pursues his journey in perfect safety. - Ovid

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. - Anna Quindlen

Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't. - Dani Harper

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. - Jim Hightower

I read the book of Job last night. I don't think God comes out well in it. - Virginia Woolf

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

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

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

A professional is someone who does his best work when he doesn't feel like it. - Alistair Cooke

Work hard. Rock hard. Eat hard. Sleep hard. Grow big. Wear glasses if you need 'em. - Webb Wilder

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. - Tennessee Williams

I had the most boring office job in the world - I used to clean the windows on envelopes. - Rita Rudner

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work. - Bobby Orr

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort. - Adrian Belew

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work. - Patrick M.S. Blackett

From an early age I understood that cooking was never going to be a job, it's a passion. - Gordon Ramsay

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

Sometimes you have to work hard for what you want. Sometimes, hard work is what makes it precious. - Ute Carbone

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

When they start the game, they don't yell, 'Work ball.' They say, 'Play ball.' - Willie Stargell

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. - Marshall McLuhan

A benefit of any job is laughter. It should never be a crime to have fun on the job. It may be a crime not to. - Terry Paulson

Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it. - Jack Nichols

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do his work through me. - James Hudson Taylor

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children. - Bill Hicks

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

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment. - Harvey Mackay

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it. - Dorothy Height

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. - Johnny Unitas