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Quotes About Work

I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.
~ Susan Orlean
President Obama is funny, he's thoughtful, he's challenging, he's fun to work with - and it's been an extraordinary privilege.
~ Susan Rice
Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.
~ Susan Sontag
Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
~ Susan Vreeland
Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.
~ Susanna White
When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.
~ Suzanne Ciani
I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.
~ Suzanne Vega
We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.
~ Suze Orman
Perfection can never be attained by work.
~ Swami Vivekananda
All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.
~ Sydney Pollack
Eva: Do you understand how much time and work a relationship between us is going to take? Gideon Gideon: but you're worth it and i want you bad enough, so i guess i dont have a choice dont I?
~ Sylvia Day
My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.
~ Sylvia Kristel
My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.
~ Sylvia Plath
I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.
~ Sylvia Plath
Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
~ T-Pain
Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
~ Tadanobu Asano
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
~ Tamara Ecclestone