Quotes About Work

Complete control can be the death of a work.

I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.

The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

Good work instead of long prayers.

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon," Eva warned him. "I'm not afraid of work." He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. "I'm only afraid of losing you.

The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".