Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
—Henry David Thoreau
Quality is pride of workmanship.
—W. Edwards Deming
I got my first full-time job, but it's weird. I could swear I was making more money in college, working for my parents as their daughter.
—Melanie Reno
I'm a secretary. On a good day I type ninety-five words per minute; on a bad day I show up drunk in my pajamas.
—Mary Beth Cowan
Personally I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic.
—Barbara Ehrenreich
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility.
—Lewis Mumford
I start a picture and I finish it.
—Jean-Michel Basquiat
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
—Gautama Buddha
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
—Lawana Blackwell
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
—Aristotle
You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.
—Barack Obama
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
—Bertrand Russell
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
—Bette Davis
You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
—Bob Ross
At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.
—David McCullough