Quotes About Work

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.

The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.