Top 31 Unnecessary Work Quotes
#1. By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
Alfred North Whitehead
#2. To work in the world is hard, to refrain from all unnecessary work is even harder.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#3. My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
Prince Philip
#4. Paul worked hard. He did not say that God's grace made his work unnecessary. He said God's grace made his work possible.
John Piper
#5. If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
Leo Tolstoy
#6. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked."
Herman Melville
Peter Wortsman
#7. For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.
Alex Pareene
#9. We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#10. It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.
Andrew Lakey
#11. Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.
Henry Petroski
#12. Maybe he'd already gone to bed. Maybe Cath could just climb into his bed like Goldilocks, and if he woke up, she'd just say "later" and run away. Goldilocks meets Cinderella.
Rainbow Rowell
#13. We all work with one Infinite Power. We all guide ourselves by exactly the same laws.
Bob Proctor
#14. I was impatient in those days, busy with work and unrealized plans, and prone to see other people as unnecessary distractions.
Barack Obama
#15. Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
Paulo Coelho
#16. I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
R.A. Salvatore
#17. The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn't have a problem with either one - but somehow I didn't equate either one of them to the academic world.
Tom Selleck
#18. Be easy. take your time. you are coming home. to yourself. - the becoming
Nayyirah Waheed
#19. There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.
Ayn Rand
#20. Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.
Swami Vivekananda
#21. ALWAYS hook a reader. If a detail is unnecessary, it doesn't belong in your work, long or short! Make everything intriguing. If you have to describe a desk, make it awesome.
Darynda Jones
#22. I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Sean Bean
#23. Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Natalie Portman
#24. If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?
Shin Kyung-sook
#25. Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
William Feather
#26. A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself
Henry Morgan
#27. Doctoring sick calves becomes my sole work. I don't even notice when or where the new ones were born. My days and nights are lived in the herd, and an intimacy blossoms as it does when one attends any gravely ill being, after talk becomes impossible or unnecessary to exchange.
Gretel Ehrlich
#28. Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash
#29. I've seen the same promises
more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.
Sherrod Brown
#30. True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.
Herman Melville
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