Quotes About Work

In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

You have to believe that things will happen, you have to work and love what you're doing.

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.