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Quotes About Work

Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.
~ Milan Kundera
I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.
~ Unknown
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.
~ Milton Friedman
For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.
~ Miranda Kerr
Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
~ Miranda Otto
The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
~ Mordecai Richler
Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.
~ Mother Teresa
Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for.
~ Nancy Hale
Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?
~ Neil Gaiman
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.
~ Neil Gaiman
Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
~ Nellie L. McClung
Without work men are utterly undone
~ Nevil Shute
The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
I did work in a bakery for one day. But the boss went off and when he came back I was lying on the floor eating cakes.
~ Noel Fielding
You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.
~ Nora Roberts
I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.
~ Norah O'Donnell
There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
~ Pablo Casals
I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.
~ Paul O'Grady
I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.
~ Unknown
I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
~ Penelope Keith
I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.
~ Pete Rose
Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
~ Pete Sampras