Quotes About Avoiding Work

#1. Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labor.

Terry Pratchett

#3. You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks and a trip to Sweden.

Andrew Smith

#4. Maira Kalman says, Avoiding work is the way to focus my mind.

Austin Kleon

#5. I half imagined I could taste the silver on his nails, as sharp as glitter in my mouth. Maybe when he touched me, colour would spill from his hands like heat.

Alexis Hall

#6. To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

Oriana Fallaci

#7. An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.

Laura Bush

#8. I'm not avoiding your question on my relationship to the fashion world or my work being shown in a fashion setting. My work's most often seen in the streets on billboards. I don't know if it being seen in a shop is any much different.

Robert Montgomery

#9. Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba - outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another - before interdigitating with related ideas.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#10. A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Arnold Bennett

#11. Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I'd use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.

George W. Bush

#12. I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#13. Avoiding sin isn't about us not getting in trouble; it is about us trusting that the Creator knows his creation best and has designed the world to work in a certain way.

Jefferson Bethke

#14. There are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies.

Mikl Paul

#15. Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Zig Ziglar

#16. Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own species.

Rafael Sabatini

#17. There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work. People are doing the Devil's work everywhere you go; there's no avoiding it unless you go live on a mountaintop somewhere, a hundred miles from everyone.

Dean Koontz

#18. Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Elbert Hubbard

#19. It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.

M.B. Dallocchio

#20. Even with the desire for a better life, we can be reluctant to do the work of boundaries because it will be a war. The battle falls into two categories: outside resistance we get from others and the resistance we get from ourselves.

Henry Cloud

#21. Don't let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#22. You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself.

Bertrand Russell

#23. There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

Wendy Beckett

#24. In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

Tim Jackson

#25. Love. Lust. Like. They're all the same and start somewhere, right? The point is, you should never give up.

Gabbie S. Duran

#26. Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.

Bing Gordon

#27. I gave it a shot, Lex. I gave you your space. I let you be happy. That's what you said you wanted." He gripped her hand a little harder. "How did that work? Are you happy? Are you happy without me?

K.A. Linde

#28. Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.

A.D. Posey

#29. Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work. Once fear has put us in touch with our inner issue it can diminish. In fact, simply acknowledging fear seems to lessen it.

John Earle

#30. We work hard to do the things that we think will make us better, but we forget to focus on the things that might be sabotaging our efforts. Avoiding

Amy Morin

#31. I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

Edward Tufte

#32. Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

Seth Godin

#33. Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Michael Leunig

#34. I don't judge a person by the place he or she is. I'm more interested in where that person is going, and the steps they are taking to get there.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#35. My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

Prince Philip

#36. I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism.

Roxane Gay

#37. I get the most work done when I'm procrastinating. While avoiding an unpleasant task, I find several other tasks twice as unpleasant, and get those out of the way first.

Marcia K. Matthews