Quotes About Work

Don't think for a moment that you've gotta be perfect to be paid.

Your father used to say "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for."

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

Necessity does the work of courage.

It takes courage to live-courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.

If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I'm working myself to death.

You think if you worked for an Irish builder it would be better? Try it—go work for Shanley, you'll see what a lovely fellow he is. And the Italians, would they be better, you think? Steinheim shoots his mouth off—the Italians shoot guns." "And Longy Zwillman doesn't shoot guns?

Trabalho - Certas pessoas anseiam por trabalho, qualquer trabalho, por mais pesado e desagradável que seja, a fim de drenar a dureza de suas vidas e afastar da mente os pensamentos homicidas...

And this, I realized, is the excruciating scrupulosity, the same maddening, meticulous attention to every last detail that makes you great, that keeps you going and got you through and now is dragging you down. Standing with E. I. Lonoff over the disobedient arm of his record player, I understood the celebrated phenomenon for the first time: a man, his destiny, and his work—all one. What a terrible triumph!