Quotes About Work

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

Processes don't do work, people do

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.

I like taking the subway to work.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.

Gladys.. work has kept you fit And Bill.. you never moan Well life's not for carrying cases With a butler of your own

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

I love to work. You want to talk about natural highs? There's nothing like it.

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.

Now we also need people who just love to listen to the music. And we need people that want to work to facilitate it. That want to do work, have somebody like Bret Primack, the jazz video guy.