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Quotes About Work

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.
~ Marie Corelli
My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.
~ Paz Vega
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
~ Edward Albee
There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.
~ Lawrence Giustiniani
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
~ Seneca the Younger
How to make money from Facebook and Twitter: (1) Go to 'Account Settings' (2) Click 'Deactivate your account' (3) Go back to work!
~ Papa CJ
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
~ Stephen Sondheim
X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
~ Albert Einstein
I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
~ Ian Somerhalder
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
~ Sarah Palin
If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.
~ T.I.
Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.
~ Van Jones
I would have to say that I'm haunted. I'm haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won't be satisfied unless I do great work.
~ Lemon Andersen
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
~ Ally Sheedy
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
~ James Broughton
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
~ Gil Kane
For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.
~ Thom Mayne
I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.
~ Alicia Vikander
We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.
~ Frederick Sommer
There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
~ Joseph de Maistre
The work of a man is the explanation of the man.
~ Paul Gauguin
I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.
~ Alexander Murdoch Mackay
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.
~ Giannina Braschi