Quotes About Work

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.

No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

The more I work the happier I am.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

I work on weekends, but from home.

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.