Quotes About Work

Erskine's freckles did incredible diplomatic work for him. Howard had often wished for a similarly benign face to show the world.

To believe in blackness solely as a negative binary in a prejudicial racialized structure, and to further believe that this binary is and will forever be the essential, eternal, and primary organizing category of human life, is a pessimist's right but an activist's indulgence. Meanwhile, there is work to be done (xxxiv).

A feminist who had always been supported by men—first my father and now the Noted Activist—and who, though she continually harangued me about the "nobility of labor," had never, as far as I knew, actually been gainfully employed.

Don't romanticize your vocation. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

All the difficult work of attunement and acceptance has already been done by others. Smart critics, other painters, appreciative amateurs. They kicked the door open almost a century ago—all I need do is walk through it.

Once he had said to her that a man should never be judged by the result of his labors, but by the nature of his effort.

I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

Dat's de reason de sister in black works harder than anybody else in the world. De white man tells de n****r to work and he takes and tells his wife.

Jim Allen laughed just as loud as anybody else and then he said: We better hurry on to work befo' de buckra [white people] get in behind us. Don't never worry about work, says Jim Presley. There's more work in de world than there is anything else. God made de world and de white folks made work.

What yo' all reckon is the matter sho' 'nough? Must be something terrible when white folks get slow about putting us to work.

Dat mule is liable tuh be dead befo' de week is out. You won't git no work outa him. Didn't buy 'im fuh no work. I god, Ah bought dat varmint tuh let 'im rest. You didn't have gumption enough tuh do it. A respectful silence fell on the place. Sam looked at Joe and said, Dat's a new idea 'bout varmints, Mayor Starks. But Ah laks it mah ownself. It's uh noble thing you done. Everybody agreed with that.

All night now the jooks clanged and clamored. Pianos living three lifetimes in one. Blues made and used right on the spot. Dancing, fighting, singing, crying, laughing, winning and losing love every hour. Work all day for money, fight all night for love. The rich black earth clinging to bodies and biting the skin like ants.

If I work with Shah Rukh, it will be as an actor, not a star. Whenever I have thought of making a film with some star in mind, I've abandoned the film in a few weeks.

A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad.

My family was as absolute as the work.Family was first always.

I'm ready to do any kind of work, as long as it absorbs my passion for making a just world and equal world.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it.

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

If you can't hold yourself accountable and get your job done then you're not going to be successful.

I never feel proud of my work and say that this is my biggest achievement.

I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work I do.

There are a lot of big action movies that we've worked on where the attitude has been, 'Let's just get through this scene.' Then you get those jumpy, what-were-they-thinking action sequences.

The Loro Piana man is a very active one: he works hard, and when he has time off, being close to nature is important to him.