Quotes About Work

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

The future is destined only for tomorrow's work and today's thoughts.

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.

Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.

What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!

When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.