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“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

Source: Works

“I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.”

Ifs Men Giving Ideas Facts Fighting Names Work Pieces Example Hero Creatures Consequence Affair Selfish Gentleman Coward Reckless Backbone

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.”

Giving Work Cases Servant Apology Wrecks Punctuation Civil Servants Convoluted

Author:Alan Clark

“Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.”

Giving Work Speed Ease Lasting Solidity Exactness

Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.”

Giving Art Made Done Earth Names Work Materials Source Honor Connections Users Good Work

Book:Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

“Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.”

Men Giving Dream Eye Work Sun Wall Hot Prison Bent Toil Brazen Prison Walls

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.”

Giving Song Work Give Me Beer Cruise Caribbean

Author:John Fogerty

“When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.”

Giving Wells Jobs Work Hell Fellows

Author:Paul McCartney

“Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.”

Giving Heart Hard Work Heart Attack Working Too Hard

Author:Billy Joel