Quotes About Work

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

I've met very few professional land surveyors who regret their career path, and even fewer, who are out of work, even during economic slowdowns.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.