Quotes About Work

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I don't like work but I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.

Joseph Conrad

The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.

Jessica Hische

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work.

Chuck Close

Attention to detail … can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Marco Arment

You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Traditional

Do not chase people. Be you and do your own thing and work hard. The right people who belong in your life will come to you and stay.

Wu Tang

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

Walt Disney

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King, Jr

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty... Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

Dave Eggers