Depressing Situation

Happiness is an inside job. - William A Ward

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. - Aristotle

A career is a job that has gone on too long. - Jeff MacNelly

The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence. - Max Reinhardt

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

Hard work is the best remedy for all of life's trials. - Unknown

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

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

It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J.M. Barrie

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - Dave Barry

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. - William Osler

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire

No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do. - Dorothy Day

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

Comedy's a funny game, it's not a job, it's a vocation - you never stop. - Eric Sykes

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. - Michelene Wandor

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. - Francoise de Motteville

I don't work out. If God wanted us to bend over, he'd put diamonds on the floor. - Joan Rivers

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert

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

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. - Colin Powell

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired, and get paid just enough money not to quite. - George Carlin

I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself. - Joseph Conrad

Hard work is the soundest investment. It provides a neat security for your widow's next husband. - Unknown

How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? - Jacques Plante

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe. - Morgan Freeman

One of the endearing things about mathematicians is the extent to which they will go to avoid doing any real work. - Matthew Pordage

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house. - Joe Ryan

I thank the Lord I no longer have to go to work. I just get out of bed in the morning, and there it is - all around me. - Unknown

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

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

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work. - George Carlin

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job. - Abraham Kaplan

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. - Lucinda Basset

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. - Doug Larson

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

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly. - Harvey Mackay