Quotes About Work

There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.

Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans, for that matter.

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

I'm sure the audience could see me trembling. I want to do more live work; my next goal is to shake the fear.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.

Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.

I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.