{"topic":"work","quotes":[{"quote":"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.","author":"Anatole France"},{"quote":"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.","author":"Aristotle"},{"quote":"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.","author":"Aristotle"},{"quote":"You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.","author":"Barack Obama"},{"quote":"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.","author":"Bertrand Russell"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Bette Davis"},{"quote":"You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.","author":"Bob Ross"},{"quote":"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.","author":"David McCullough"},{"quote":"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.","author":"David Shore"},{"quote":"Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.","author":"Diane Ackerman"},{"quote":"Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate \"flextime,\" in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.","author":"Don Marquis"},{"quote":"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers"},{"quote":"A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.","author":"Edgar Bergen"},{"quote":"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?","author":"Elbert Hubbard"},{"quote":"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.","author":"Elizabeth Barrett Browning"},{"quote":"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.","author":"Eric Hoffer"},{"quote":"Our great weariness comes from work not done.","author":"Hal Lancaster"},{"quote":"Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.","author":"Helen Keller"},{"quote":"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.","author":"Henri Matisse"},{"quote":"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.","author":"Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel"},{"quote":"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.","author":"Henry David Thoreau"},{"quote":"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.","author":"Henry J. Kaiser"},{"quote":"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.","author":"Horace"},{"quote":"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.","author":"Howard Newton"},{"quote":"People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.","author":"James M. Barrie"},{"quote":"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.","author":"Jean De La Fontaine"},{"quote":"By the work one knows the workmen.","author":"John Ruskin"},{"quote":"...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.","author":"John Ruskin"},{"quote":"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.","author":"Johnny Carson"},{"quote":"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."}]}