Quotes About Work

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.

Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis.

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there.

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.

I believe that the work of the Holy Spirit, through the church, will continue on.

Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

Your heart works for you, but do you work for your heart?