Quotes About Work

Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

Animal abuse is still widespread and we have so much work ahead.

I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.

All I do is work, that's all my life is work.

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

Mostly with commercial work, it isn't about personal vision. It's not a personal effort, it's work for hire. That's more my attitude with those. You just want to be a professional worker.

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?