The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret. ~ Ted Williams
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. ~ Louis Nizer
Work is an opportunity to bring something forth--to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original. ~ Alexandria Stoddard, Daring to Be Yourself, 1990
Fill brightest hours with labor; rest comes sure and soon. ~ Annie L. Coghill, A Growing Heart
They intoxicate themselves with work so as not to see what they really are. ~ Aldous Huxley
To love what you do and feel that it matters--how could anything be more fun? ~ Katharine Graham
Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness. ~ Thomas Carlyle
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up. ~ Muhammad Ali
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. ~ Richard Bach
If you have enough energy to play hard, you're not working hard enough. ~ William Q. Johnson
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near." ~ Margaret Thatcher
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand. ~ Ann Morrow Lindbergh
The harder you work the luckier you get. ~ Gary Player