Quotes About Work

Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Abundance of life does not come from having a great job. Abundance comes from generosity.

He was a bureaucrat, not a hitman, and most of the time that's what supervillainy looks like in real life.

To feel the joy of life, love what you do.

Enough is not in the volume of money owned or size of one's account. It is in the needs that can be consistently met without having to work for money anymore

If you love what you do, it isn't your job, it is your love affair.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It's the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Politics is social work with power.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.