Quotes about work

"Housekeeping ain't no joke."

Alcott, Louisa May on work   

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"The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on work   

"I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy."

Conran, Shirley on work   

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

Diller, Phyllis on work
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"The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment."

Friedan, Betty on work   

"The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses."

Gillman, Charlotte P. on work   

"Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother."

Jones, Beverly on work   

"Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household."

Jong, Erica on work   

"You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on work   

"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."

Mccarthy, Mary on work   

"Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him."

Mead, Margaret on work   

"Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization."

Oakley, Ann on work   

"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again."

Rivers, Joan on work   

"For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt."

Stern, Edith Mendel on work   

"When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why."

Whitehorn, Katharine on work   

"Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt."

Wilde, Oscar on work
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"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on work
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"The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."

Baldwin, James on work   

"Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair."

Berra, Yogi on work   

"The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them."

Block, A Harvey on work   

"We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation."

Calloway, Wayne on work   

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

Carty, Margaret on work
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"You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough."

Crandall, Robert on work   

"A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times."

Devine, Dan on work   

"No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything."

Dodge, B. on work
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"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

Ford, Henry on work
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"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."

Fromme, Dr. Allan on work
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"No one man is superior to the game."

Giamatti, A. Bartlett on work   

"What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on work   

"Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas."

Green, Estill I. on work   

"A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two."

Herbert, George on work
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"Many hands make light work."

Heywood, John on work   

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

Hill, Napoleon on work
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"On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job."

Holtz, Lou on work   

"Light is the task where many share the toil."

Homer on work   

"Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion."

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic'' on work   

"The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all."

Keller, Helen on work   

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

Keller, Helen on work
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Kennedy, John F. on work   

"I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game."

Landry, Tom on work