Quotes About Work

Duty to his wife. Duty to his children. Duty to work, to committees, to charities. Duty to Lynette. Duty to the other women. It was exhausting. It demanded stamina. At times he amazed even himself.

cacophony of typewriter keys being pounded and typewriter carriages returning, phones ringing, men yelling and coughing, electric fans here and there droning as they hacked the unbearable heat into intolerable hot tufts.

Speedo, when they worked us seventy days and

My dad used to say, you young never carry your weight.

railway fettler, and his family lived in a Tasmanian Government Railways

Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation & reviling, while fine work housing emptiness is closed to all insults & is easily ivied over with paid praises

It cannot be too firmly realized that every Soul in incarnation is down here for the specific purpose of gaining experience and understanding, and of perfecting his personality towards those ideals laid down by the Soul. Let everyone remember/hat his Soul has laid down for him a particular work, and that unless he does this work, though perhaps not consciously, he will inevitably raise a conflict between his Soul and personality which of necessity reacts in the form of physical disorders

While all executive skills are important, when it comes to teenagers, parents are likely to be particularly aware of the impact of specific skills. For example, in managing the demands of school, sports, work, and an active social life, the skills of planning/prioritization, organization, task initiation, and time management are particularly important.

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

Moral: to the extent you can choose, work on problems you think will be important.

Almost all professionals are slow to use their own expertise for their own work.

The causes of human deficiencies in intelligence—or parenting, or social behavior, or work behavior—lay outside the individual. They were caused by flaws in society.

No way. You won't catch Notley working weekends. Calls it the American disease, working all the hours God sends you.

Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work.

The great acting coach Michael Chekhov advised his students, "If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

No matter what your age or your life path… it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

We forget that the imagination-at-play is at the heart of all good work.

Work is a part of my identity but it is not my essence.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. FRIEDRICH ENGELS

This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

It's this time of year when Kit mist rise in the dark, as if we're a farmer or a fisherman, someone whose livelihood depends on beating the dawn, convincing himself that what looks like night is actually morning.

The cure for sex is marriage;the cure for love is marriage;the cure for infidelity is divorce;the cure for unhappiness is work;the cure for extreme unhappiness is drink;the cure for death is a frail belief in the afterlife.

Work would be something I jogged along with; love would be my life.

We believe too little, and aesthetically know too much; so we re-create, we find new categories of pleasure in the work.