Quotes About Work

I like to keep working and keep changing. It's a hopeful, optimistic thing to think and sit about what you could do next. Maybe it's blind optimism.

Due to the very nature of police work, social distancing isn't always an option for our nation's law enforcement heroes.

My mum and dad had creative jobs, but our family was a working family - so there wasn't an option of, 'Oh, when you're older, you're not going to have to work.'

Some people are less comfortable than others using their personal Facebook in the work context. With Facebook at Work, you get the option of completely separating the two.

I never considered interior design as a career option. I had designed a couple of our homes, and people liked my work. Friends came forward and asked me to help them do up their homes, and that's how it started.

In our careers you don't get the option to say, 'I'm going to take two months off, or go on holiday.' You just don't have that in this lifestyle and it has made us realise we do work non-stop.

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.

Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that's most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord's kingdom.

I did some feature work, then tried TV. I was always very aware that the only power that you have is the power of options. If the film industry dries up, then you focus on the TV or the books. For me, it was always about what story do I want to tell next?

Parents of all income levels deserve options for child care while they work so they can be free of the worry that their children are cared for and safe.

My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband.

I have my own orchard, and I also work with the Bloomington Community Orchard, which has been one of the best experiences of my life.

Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day.

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.

I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.

I am just working every day, day to day, with what I believe. It's a very ordinary way of dealing with your life - just dealing with your work.

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.

In comedy you have to be prepared and be specific and have a vision so your comedy feels organic and relatable and it's a lot of work to get to that point.

I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.

The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.