WORK QUOTES III
quotations about work
We are not unaccustomed to becoming imposters by the time we reach our desks each morning. By design, we've been taught that professionalism in American office society mostly equates to assimilation -- requiring that, as employees, we self-adjust to fit into a ready-made office culture governed by unwritten rules. Our identities, which transcend across race, gender, marital status, sexuality, education and economic background, are not to be considered acceptable fodder for a politically-correct workplace environment.
SHERREL DORSEY
"Bringing Your 'Whole Self' to Work Is Harder Than It Sounds", Triple Pundit, February 1, 2016
As technology advances and employees demand greater flexibility and mobility, the word "work" will continue to take on new and different meanings. Ultimately, though, from the perspective of employers, the goal will stay the same: to bring people, content and technology together in a single, unified content-experience platform that promotes effective team collaboration and improves business performance.
PAIGE O'NEILL
"The definition of work is shifting", Network World, March 13, 2017
It isn't the hours you put in your work that count, it's the work you put in the hours.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
EMILY BRONTË
Wuthering Heights
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
JOHN DOS PASSOS
Airways Inc
We think work is killing us. A new Mayo Clinic survey shows Americans blame work more than anything else for keeping them from better health.
JACQUELINE CUTLER
"Top five reasons Americans think work is killing us", Daily News, February 4, 2016
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
This Side of Paradise
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
ANDRE GIDE
Journals
There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Autobiography
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
The first assignment that God gave to man was work. God gave man work before He gave man a wife.
AL MILLER
"The transforming power of work", Jamaica Observer, April 2, 2017
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Notebooks
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
KARL MARX
"Alienated Labor", Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
Made to Last
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.
BILL CLINTON
speech in Memphis, November 13, 1993
It's all too tempting to assign your over-performing employees the most important tasks; you trust their work will be of the utmost quality, and they can clearly do their job very well. Yet, where do you draw the line? The more duties you allocate to a select few workers could have harmful effects on them, the team or even the company's performance.
LIZZI HART
"10 reasons why giving your best employee more work is a terrible idea", Business Insider, February 10, 2016
A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
How hard you work matters more than how much you make.
MICHELLE OBAMA
speech at Democratic National Convention, September 4, 2012
The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
My Heart Laid Bare