Quotes About Work

This is the dark side of the "American dream." We blame the poor, accusing them of being poor because they do not work hard enough. Yet for the most part, the poor have less because the rich have taken more.

The amount of work that needs to be undertaken is great, and we bear an enormous responsibility. The future of the world depends on this. We cannot wait for others to act. Who is the hero who can save the world? It is you. It is everyone of us. If you accept this challenge, that would be truly heroic. You would be an altruistic hero. – 17th Karmapa

like a peasant tending to his property,

You get what you put into it," he explained.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil

For just experience tells; in every soil,That those that think must govern those that toil.

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labor with an age of ease.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

Prendere le distanze dal proprio lavoro, sia nello scatto che durante la selezione, è un imperativo, seppur inumano!

Kawajiri Hogin writes in his Zazen no Shokei, "When you are engaged in some work or other, you become one with it. In the intervals of your work, you immediately resume your contemplation on the koan. For instance, when you are smoking by the fireside or doing something like that, you are considered to be in the intervals of your work. At such a time you are absorbed in the contemplation on the koan free from dualistic thoughts and imaginations. This is one example of kufu in movement.

Apart from nembutsu, we can cure our fatigue by sitting truly well in meditation, even if we shorten the time of our sleep. This has been proved by many who have experienced zazen. Ten minutes of zazen before reading and the momentary immersion in samadhi before work—how well they help us enjoy our work and reading, and to what a great extent they enhance our efficiency!

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Our theory," explained Fried, "is that we'll see better results when people have a long stretch of uninterrupted time.

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.