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Quotes About Work

Here is the sequence of steps we have identified in achieving a path of purpose: Inspiring communication with persons outside the immediate family Observation of purposeful people at work First moment of revelation: something important in the world can be corrected or
~ William Damon
in Altruria every one works with his hands, so that the hard work shall not all fall to any one class; and this manual labor of each is sufficient to keep the body in health, as well as to earn a living. After the three, hours' work, which constitutes a day's work with us, is done, the young people have all sorts of games and sports, and they carry them as late into life as the temperament of each demands.
~ William Dean Howells
For my sins I recently went on a fact-finding tour of the North East...They're no longer whineing and snivelling about social justice and the right to work. They've given up completely.
~ William Donaldson
a large and ridiculous gunner told me that I looked like an out-of-work chorus boy. He was very startled when I told him that was exactly what I was, but that I found it easier to get work as a naval officer, a job requiring considerably less talent.
~ William Donaldson
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
~ William E. Barrett
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
~ William Ellery Channing
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
~ William Ellery Channing
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
~ William Ellery Channing
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
~ William Ernest Hocking
I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.
~ William Ewart Gladstone
Industry is the enemy of melancholy
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
~ William Faulkner
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
~ William Faulkner
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
~ William Feather
The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
~ William Friedkin
What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he's done his work? What's any artist but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around.
~ William Gaddis
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.
~ William Gaddis
What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he's done his work? What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.
~ William Gaddis
As we brew, we must bake
~ William Godwin
Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
~ William Goldman
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
~ William Graham Sumner
Physicians, lawyers, and others paid by fees are workers by the piece. To
~ William Graham Sumner
Something for nothing is not to be found on earth.
~ William Graham Sumner
When the people whose claims we are considering are told to apply themselves to these tasks they become irritated and feel almost insulted. They
~ William Graham Sumner