Quotes About Work

Dina, who couldn't imagine not working when everyone else was, didn't think twice. What did being tired have to do with it? You worked until the work was done.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

We, the women, who rule thatif you make a scholar out of your wife, you will need another wife to do the daily chores.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

It's pretty nice to be talented. If you are, enjoy, but it won't take you that far. Work takes you a lot further.

Being an artist in our society makes us lonely. Everyone else leaves in the morning for work and structured jobs. Artists live outside that built in social system.

Nuoriso on lystikästä, kaikki haluavat työskennellä avaruuden parissa, mutta kuka sitten hoitaa maanpäällisen elämämme?

I've been accused of being a Jesuit. I am not a Jesuit. I'm not even sure how one would become a Jesuit. It seems like a lot of work. It isn't one of my hobbies.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

Americans have dissipated their racial energy in an orgy of stone-breaking. In their few years they have broken more stones than did centuries of Egyptians, and they have done their work hysterically, desperately, almost as if they knew that the stones would some day break them.

In addition, if a person makes the error of identifying self with his work (rather than with the internal virtues that make the work possible), if self-esteem is tied primarily to accomplishments, success, income, or being a good family provider, the danger is that economic circumstances beyond the individual's control may lead to the failure of the business or the loss of a job, flinging him into depression or acute demoralization.

True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko

People aren't born social. Sure it comes easier to some people but most people, like you, need to work at it. Some more than others. You're just inexperienced.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

Be careful, fathers, when you inordinately desire things to be better for your children than they were for you. Do not, however unintentionally, make things worse by removing the requirement for reasonable work as part of their experience, thereby insulating your children from the very things that helped make you what you are.

Work is always a spiritual necessity even if, for some, work is not an economic necessity.

Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that's what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more you achieve. The more you achieve, the more you're taxed. To make matters worse, under our "progressive" income tax system, the harder you work, the more severe the punishment actually is!

Our marvelous electronic devices can seduce us into believing we are hard at work, but we are merely sending and receiving insignificant messages, while the real work goes undone, day after day, week after week, year after year. Real thinking and grappling hurt like hell. That's why so many people avoid it like a root canal.

The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

You'll need to drop the model of self-alienation that you learned as a child—the one that tells you, "You are lazy and need someone to force you to work.

Procrastination is not the cause of our problems with accomplishing tasks; it is an attempt to resolve a variety of underlying issues, including low self-esteem, perfectionism, fear of failure and of success, indecisiveness, an imbalance between work and play, ineffective goal-setting, and negative concepts about work and yourself.

The fear of judgment is the key fear that stems from over-identifying who you are, your worth as a person, with your work. From this fear follows the counterproductive drive toward perfectionism, severe self-criticism, and the fear that you must deprive yourself of leisure time in order to satisfy some unseen judge.