Quotes About Work

En el fondo todos somos esclavos de algo. Nadie escapa a la esclavitud. Tanto los de aquí adentro (en la carcel) como los de fuera. Y cuando la veía algo mustia: - No irás a decirme que tú cuando te creías libre no te sentías esclava de tu trabajo, de tus miedos, de tus pasiones e incluso de tus ganas de hacer las cosas con la mayor perfección. Pero Lucía no acertaba a comprenderla.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?Another day older and deeper in debt.Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't goI owe my soul to the company store.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

Veja você, meu sobrinho: um boi. Dentro de água, um boi será que nada? Não, ele apenas se perguiça na corrente. A esperteza do boi é levar a água a trabalhar na viagem dele.

As Han once told me, "Stealth and subtlety work well, but for making lasting impressions, a blaster does just fine.

Keep your section solvent, keep your job.

None of us wants to reject our core assumptions about the universe and start all over again. It is hard work, and it deprives us of nearly everything that makes us feel secure.

People come to work to succeed. It's our responsibility as managers to support them so that they do. Every person has the right to succeed every time they do their job, and they also have the right to have a successful career.

I'd been deeply affected by my contact with the miners, not only because of their kindness, but because they'd taken this potentially hellish place and made it, if not heaven, at least human; through their simple rituals of eating, drinking tea, smoking tobacco, praying, playing, and talking, they'd created civilization in one of the most impossible places to imagine it. And what seemed like a miracle to me was, to them, just another day at work!

God does not "work in strange ways," alas, but in ways that are perfectly familiar.

People don't realize that if they began working in their twenties and retire at age sixty that they may spend as much time in retirement as they did working.

We are often consciously unaware of the culture we live or work in, or of the profound influence it has on our lives.

The guy who scrapes boogers off the bottoms of movie theater seats Which

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

I don't want to screw up today's work and tomorrow's worrying about yesterday's and I don't want to focus on what it looks like on the outside when the performance has to come from within me. I want to be in the moment now, getting it right from the inside.

I'd spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.

He knew that God very often did his deepest work in the soul without any sensible manifestations. He was always at work—always—and often most powerfully in those times when his children felt abandoned, alone with impossible responsibilities or afflictions. Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.

If one is called to an unusual work in the Kingdom of God, it is necessary that the roots of pride be burned out as soon as possible, otherwise pride would destroy him. Pride is the death-bringer. It ruins everything, even the greatest works conceived with the highest ideals.

What are the options then? Immerse yourself in a regular job of work which will give you the illusion of solidity and safety through activity, so that you are prevented from ever having to address the real issues of your life...In this sense activity is the soul's worst enemy and should be avoided.

By the time Gorbachev came to power, alcoholism had reached epidemic proportions. Official studies showed that 70 percent of all crimes were related to alcohol. Drink was blamed for widespread absenteeism at work, a sharp increase in the divorce rate, and a dramatic drop in male life expectancy.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley

And what makes people work is an idea worth working for, along with a clear understanding of what needs to be done.

He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living. Knight