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1001 Best Things Ever Said about WORK
 
 
 
 
 




Bad Days at Work

 


There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers. — Robert Orben


Job. 1001 Best Things Ever Said about WORK


Smile. Tomorrow will be worse. — Unknown wise person


If a project is going wrong, always blame one of your colleagues — but not an intelligent one. — Joep Schrijvers


Swallow a toad in the morning if you want to encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. — Nicolas Chamfort


A bad workman always blames his tools. — French proverb


It's a good rule to follow the first law of holes: if you are in one, stop digging. — Denis Healey


It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done. — Oscar Wilde




Boring Work


If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. — Rainer Maria Rilke


Job. 1001 Best Things Ever Said about WORK


A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. — W. H. Auden


Work is not a curse, but drudgery is. — Henry Ward Beecher


To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom; it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. — Heraclitus


I had a boring office job. I cleaned the windows in the envelopes. — Rita Rudner


You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous. — Bob Black


The less of routine, the more of life. — A. B. Alcott


Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. — Helen MacInness





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