Quotes About Work

I was always working steady, but I never called it art.

I was always working steady But I never called it art Meeting Jesus reading Marx Sure it failed my little fire But it's bright the dying spark Go tell the young messiah What happens to the heart.

if we will do God's work in God's way at God's time with God's power, we shall have God's blessing

We make a product and sell it. How hard can it be? Every douchebag either one of us has ever worked for has managed to do this!

If you are working 80 hours a week at a job which shrivels your soul, then you are a slave. I don't are whether you are earning $600,000 a year or more. Life is precious. Each minute is a priceless gift. No amount of money can reclaim lost time.

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

il brigadiere cominciò a fare il suo lavoro di osservazione, in funzione del rapporto scritto che gli toccava poi fare: compito piuttosto ingrato sempre, i suoi anni di scuola e le sue non frequenti letture non bastando a metterlo in confidenza con l'italiano.

This was most alarming, what sort of terrible toil had deranged the poor woman? Would I also have to work day and night till I couldn't stop talking? Perhaps they made her shovel coal for a huge furnace, probably they kept a private crematorium, old people do keep dying off. Maybe they had a chain gang too and we would have to chop stones and sing sea shanties (this would explain why she wore the yachting cap.)

And these six things: love, property, the state, war, work, and death, are the legacy of Cain, who slew his brother and whose brother's blood cried out to heaven, and the Lord spake to Cain: 'You shall be cursed upon the earth and a fugitive and a vagabond.' 

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

The number-one killer in this country is heart disease. And the majority of people suffer their first major heart attack on Monday morning between eight and nine. That is the time, of course, when most people are getting ready to go to jobs that they don't like, jobs that are making them sick.

Why did you become a journalist?" "Better than working for a living.

She marched along, wondering how it could be that some people had to work their fingers to the bone and risk their lives in order to make a living and others could just sail around in the lap of luxury.

The key to success in any endeavor: 1) Recognize that life consists of patterns 2) Figure out what those patterns are 3) Work those patterns to your advantage

I know you love him, Leslie. But you can't sacrifice everything you've worked for, just for a man. This is Feminism 101. You know that already.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

The scientist starts with the conviction that the world is rational and that events at different times and places in the natural world can be related to one another in a coherent way. Without this conviction, which is a matter of faith, he could not begin his work. But the goal of his work is to prove the truth of the faith from which he began, to prove it in ever new situations.

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

Don't use your bedroom for work, unless you're a prostitute.

Meryl Streep is on the program tonight. I like to throw her a little work whenever I can.

Bring Your Child to Work Day -- that's how we got George W. Bush.

This is one of the dangers of sorrow: that in our grief for those who are gone we lose our interest in those who are living, and slacken our zeal in the work which is allotted to us.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.