Quotes About Work

I'm married, honey. My social life consists of work, church, taxiing the kids around and trying to schedule sex with my husband at least once a month.

It's a sad day when so many people shirk the most basic responsibilities of life that simply being respectable becomes behavior worthy of special attention. In other words, I think the people you describe are doing what they should. A society has weak values when it regards going to work every day and taking care of your family as heroic.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

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

I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

In those days they didn't enforce the laws. We were the people you don't always see, flashing our polite smiles, trimming hedges, parking your cars in lots, doing the night shift. You needed us and we needed you.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it. And they have to work a lot longer and harder than more privileged people do.

La verdadera división de las clases sociales habría que hacerla teniendo en cuenta la hora en que cada uno se tira de la cama

2. El tiempo se va. Porque la vida es muchas cosas (trabajo, dinero, suerte, amistad, salud, complicaciones). La palabra vida la asociamos al placer. Pienso en el placer y estoy seguro que es es vida.

Yo me digo que no, que no es el ocio lo que preciso sino el derecho a trabajar en aquello que quiero.

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.

maid, then chambermaid, then housemaid, then chief housemaid

When Matisse was asked whether he believed in God, his response was, 'yes, when I'm working'.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

I'm not sure what I'll do next, though. The problem with me is that I like to work; I like to do what I do well and completely; I just don't have a calling. Not yet, anyway

Whereas Lelong's authority came from the status of ownership, Dior's came from an artist's inner certainty that his work was good.

A group of elderly gravediggers was working to reinter them, the men's breath condensing in the cold air.

He set down the milk pails to rest and stared at the bright house. This was a man's great joy, to come at nightfall after his day's work to a lighted house. . . . and his beloved was waiting for him with food and warmth and comfort.

As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!

Orar con persistencia es pedirle a Dios que nos haga la vida más difícil. Mientras mayor es tu persistencia al orar, más tendrás que trabajar. Y eso es una bendición de Dios.

answer our prayers isn't that we aren't praying hard enough; the reason, more often than not, is that we aren't willing to work hard enough. Praying hard is synonymous with working hard. Think of praying hard and working hard as concentric circles. It's the way we double-circle our dreams and His promises. There comes a moment, after you have prayed through, when you have to start doing something about it. You have to take a step of faith, and

Here is the mistake so many of us make: we start out pursuing a passion and end up settling for a paycheck. So instead of making a life, all we do is make a living. And our deep-seated passions get buried beneath our day-to-day responsibilities.

After we pray like it depends on God, we need to work like it depends on us. But if we don't pray first, our work won't work.

Después de orar como si todo dependiera de Dios, necesitamos trabajar como si dependiera de nosotros.