Quotes About Work

The reward is entrance to the "world of the Spirit," which is to say, entrance to this world, a place at this table, in this human life. I am not much concerned about the existence of a hereafter, a "next" life—this life is what I have, this is where I live, and I believe that my spiritual growth depends upon the work I do here and now. That work amounts to seeing this world clearly, moving through it gently, and learning to love it well.

Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.

Hard-hearted people may be no fun to sit next to at parties, but they are just as entitled to earn a living as the rest of us. Fortunately-for them, at least-the need for insurance adjusters, tax collectors, theater critics, and the like continues to this very day.

Weed, are you familiar with the work of Carl Linnaeus? His Systema Naturae describes a classification system for all growing things." Weed's eyes dart everywhere, probing every corner. "Unless he visited the madhouse, I never met him," he replies.

A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love.

People within a company can be divided into two groups: those who earn money and those who don't. Only those frontline people who develop, produce, and sell products are earning money for the company. The ideal company would have only one person who does not earn money—the president—leaving the rest of the employees directly involved in revenue-generating activity.

There was a game called "Work." and on of the most-often-repeated Soviet jokes described it perfectly: "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

Si tienes una fuerte aversión al fracaso, es posible que te sientas desgraciado si no consigues el ascenso, como al tratar de evitar la pobreza o la enfermedad. Pero, si tu deseo va encaminado correctamente a hacer el mejor trabajo posible, no puedes

There are two types of lazy bosses. One is so lazy that they make you do not only your own work but theirs too. Worse, they lie to you about it, unloading all responsibility for their actions. The other is so lazy that not only do they not do their own work but they can't even be bothered to provide you work to do. These bosses lie as well, but only to themselves, passively. The first is the hardest boss to work for, the second the easiest.

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

All play and no work make Jack a poor boy.

All play and no work makes Jack a poor boy.

Rest as if you'll live forever; work as if you'll die today.

Suppress hate; love generously. Work passionately, live honorably, and love genuinely.

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.

Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.

Confine your imagination. Do not lose yourself to dangerous daydreams. Do not sit and ponder and dwell on a life you are not living. Do something active. Exercise. Work harder. Answer your emails. Fill your diary with harmless social activities. By doing, we stop ourselves imagining. And imagining for us is a fast-moving car heading toward a cliff.

Don't feel guilty about being idle. More harm is probably done to the world through work than idleness. But perfect your idleness. Make it mindful.

Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.

Assessment culture is toxic. The Belgian professor of psychoanalysis, Paul Verhaeghe, believes that the way work is now set up in our societies, with supervisors supervising supervisors and everyone being watched and marked and continually assessed, is toxic.

And yet the irony was that she soon placed herself in the margins voluntarily, giving up work for family, because she imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about unborn children than unwritten books.

In mintea ta, schimba numele tuturor zilelor cu sambata. Si schimba numele muncii cu joaca.