Quotes About Work

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

Nobody sane loves working in an office, It's against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.

Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

Every worker should know that by working, he is releasing the nature of God in him. He is becoming creative just like God is creative.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.