Quotes About Work

Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

I work. I have a life. There's not much to tell.

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.

I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.