Quotes About Work

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.

I can tell he's a good man who doesn't like his job for all the right reasons. He seemed on the verge of constant indigestion. "If

To high-drive labs and boarder collies, fetch is often more than just a game; it's their job, a dead serious business.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

don't believe in the fuckin' work ethic. This "work is what life's all about" shit is just a bunch of bollocks, it's just a fuckin' English bourgeois guilt trip invented by the fuckin' English bourgeoisie to keep people in line, y'know, like a bunch of happy fuckin' slaves. Bourgeois guilt means fuckin' nothin' to me.

Following the exuberant celebrations after signing with EMI it was time to get down to some serious work. Unlike many other bands, we had not paid our musical dues. In fact, we had barely put down a deposit. We had invested no serious time on the road, nor spent a year playing the clubs on the Reeperbahn.

It was a pity that before I'd even started work on The Final Cut, Roger felt it necessary to announce aggressively that since whatever I did 'was drumming', I couldn't claim either extra royalties or credit for any of this work. This really did seem like behaviour beginning to border on the megalomaniac, particularly since I posed no threat to his plans. I decided to look on the bright side: at least it was a way of escaping from the fraught atmosphere in the studio.

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

Finally, your attitude is critical to success. Having a positive attitude can have a tremendous effect on how you react and respond to challenges, successes, and failures. And attitude is directly affected by expectations. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work.

Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.

It was stitch-by-stitch work, following a plaid pattern. Child's play. It made her restless and impatient.

Did its magic work? It had not saved the man who wore it.

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish. The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work.

Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom.

After seeing work exploit and demolish the world, laziness seems like the mother of the virtues.

Perception of reality, today, dies crushed between modern work and modern entertainment.

An age is civilized if it does not reserve intelligence for professional work.

Let us not expect the rebirth of civilization as long as man has not again learnt to feel humiliated when he devotes himself to economic tasks.

In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.

We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.