“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.”
Work takes up most of your waking hours, which is why it matters whether you find meaning in it. These quotes cover careers, hustle, burnout, passion, and the search for a balance between making a living and making a life.
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.”
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”
“Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.”
“A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.”
“Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”
“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
“In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.”
“Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.”
“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.”
“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
“I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!”
“I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.”
“I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.”
“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.”