Quotes About Work

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.

It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.

The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.

Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.