Quotes About Work

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.