Quotes About Work

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.

You have to have passion when you're finding a recipe for a career. If you love what you are doing, you'll never work a day in your life.

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women

Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.