Quotes About Work

Women enjoy watching men work, the same way men enjoy watching women dance. There's otherness and mystery in it.

I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything. If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.

I hate Mondays, don't you?" "Not really

Je moet die mensen die zeggen dat je je de pleuris moet werken om de goede dingen van het leven te kunnen waarderen, niet geloven. Dat is niet waar. Die willen je naaien. Genot is een religie en het lichaam is de tempel.

he would make short work of the final leg of the journey – the hop across the Channel to England.

So an invasion fleet it was, and the work continued

for Google, the real value of a book is not as a self-contained literary work but as another pile of data to be mined.

Automation severs ends from means. It makes getting what we want easier, but it distances us from the work of knowing.

They are useful. But they also make clear that, for Google, the real value of a book is not as a self-contained literary work but as another pile of data to be mined.

When automation distances us from our work, when it gets between us and the world, it erases the artistry from our lives.

All work is knowledge work. The carpenter's mind is no less animated and engaged than the actuary's. The architect's accomplishments depend as much on the body and its senses as the hunter's do.

sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy.

He's not seeking some greater truth beyond the work. The work is the truth.

Because identity and self-esteem are closely tied to work, a poorly paying job may still be better for well-being than no job. In surveys, self-reported happiness drops ten times as much from a loss of a job as from a major loss of income. Long-term jobless men are three times as likely

woman is promised a job in a factory or restaurant in a coastal

Anybody who has spent time in Indian brothels and also, say, at Indian brick kilns knows that it is better to be enslaved working a kiln. Kiln workers most likely live together with their families, and their work does not expose them to the risk of AIDS, so there's always hope of escape down the road.

When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared.

OVER THE PAST two generations, America has suffered a quiet catastrophe. That catastrophe is the collapse of work—for men. In the half century between 1965 and 2015, work rates for the American male spiraled relentlessly downward, and an ominous migration commenced: a "flight from work," in which ever-growing numbers of working-age men exited the labor force altogether.

OVER THE PAST two generations, America has suffered a quiet catastrophe. That catastrophe is the collapse of work—for men.

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative enquiry, for free creation.'1 Noam Chomsky

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. —LILY TOMLIN

Necessity does the work of courage.

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.

There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work. There are those who stop so they can work. Working is the why of work.