Quotes About Work

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.

O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.

I am a little discouraged and irritated at the welfare recipient families growing in size all the time. Those of us who work and pay taxes all the time shouldn't have to pay for these kids.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.

Nobody likes a celebrity DJ for the sake of style, so I don't do that - I try to be good at what I do. It's all about resetting, it's my escape. It is work, it's a job, but I just love doing it.

As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

I certainly am not afraid of hard work. Hard work is only hard if you are not passionate about what you are doing.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

I think "MythBusters" is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.