Quotes About Work

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.

The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.