Quotes About Work

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.

I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had to come to work on the balls of our feet and go up the stairs two at a time.

It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the world might not work at all... for one reason or another.

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

Golf was my life. I didn't want to give it up. So I went to work!

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.

I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.