Quotes About Work

work, at its best, is a socially integrating activity, an arena of recognition, a way of honoring our obligation to contribute to the common good.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

It's a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Many rich men don't allow their wives to come to their office. Many women don't know what their husbands do.

Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. -Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

suppose it was an uninformed jab at my family background (he thought we were rich), and what he really meant was, "At least Mangum has to work for a living." The D.A. confused class with wealth—often the case with those who lack the former.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

I wash with the can of water I set aside the night before, and eat whatever I put next to it. The washing is not strictly necessary but, again, I have always found it a good way to greet the day. You wash after a period of work, after all, and what else is a night of sleep, if not work, or a journey at least? ("The Things He Said")

In the winter of 1985 I learned from Russian friends a perfect saying to describe the system: "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay.

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off.

The only entitlement guaranteed should be the fruits of one's own labor.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

the house had been set up by two countesses 'by divine inspiration, as it is piously believed', to preserve the respectability of women who couldn't marry, couldn't afford the 'dowry' needed to enter a convent and who were about 'to go begging or shamefully support themselves'. The beguinage allowed them to 'support and clothe themselves by suitable work, without shaming themselves or their friends'.

I spend much of my time roaming the planet on assorted travel grants, studiously avoiding the sorts of honest work in which most people engage.

Hey, I don't make the rules, I just work here. You have a complaint, take it up with the Emperor.

Ultimately, intelligence work isn't about satellites, budgets, oversight committees, or high-tech gadgetry. It's about the motivation and skills of your people.

Here was the world of cardiac surgery on babies born with heart defects, and here, I had learned during my first month in this center, was the unusual work of unusual people:

Whether people work for themselves or for others, they increasingly want to understand how their actions are contributing to a greater good.They will want to be engaged in work that contributes to society.