Quotes About Work

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

When you work for the thing you believe in You're rich though the whole way is rough- But work that is simply for money Will never quite pay you enough.

The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!

It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.

Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.