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Quotes About Work

Work? It's just serious play.
~ Saul
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
~ Seneca the Younger
Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
~ Seth Godin
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
~ Shelley Berman
Some people say I'm a dreamer, others say, 'If you fall asleep at work again we're going to have to let you go'.
~ Si Robertson
In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
~ Sidney Poitier
After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.
~ Simon van der Meer
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
~ Simone Weil
Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.
~ Siobhan Davies
My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.
~ Smohalla
Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
~ Stephanie Beacham
Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.
~ Stephen Hawking
The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.
~ Steve Burns
Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.
~ Steve Lacy
I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly on the work that's ahead of us [with Tom Hardey].
~ Steven Knight
I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.
~ Sylvia Browne
I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
~ Tayari Jones
My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.
~ Taylor Swift
Well, guess what, I'm Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.
~ Ted Cruz
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
~ Thomas Carlyle