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Quotes About Work

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
~ Man Ray
When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.
~ Manolo Blahnik
While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
~ Mara Liasson
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.
~ Marc Almond
It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.
~ Marc Blucas
At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.
~ Marc Guggenheim
I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.
~ Marc Jacobs
It's hard to balance work and family.
~ Marcia Gay Harden
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.
~ Marco Arment
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
~ Marcus Aurelius
I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Work makes a callus against grief.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it
~ Marg Helgenberger
Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.
~ Margaret Bourke-White
I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.
~ Margaret Cho
Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.
~ Margaret Cho
a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.
~ Margaret Deland
The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.
~ Margaret Haddix
I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!
~ Maria Ressa
I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.
~ Mariah Carey
I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.
~ Marian Keyes
I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.
~ Marianne Faithfull
Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.
~ Marianne Williamson