Quotes About Work

Whether the undertakings are sensible or laughable makes no difference - as long as everyone gets paid.

Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep.Days go on and on... They don't end.

The chief enemy of creativity at work is not time. It is fear.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

The typical American, after he has lost the foundations of his existence, works for new foundations.

Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.

Ces jours qui te semblent vides Et perdus pour l'univers Ont des racines avides Qui travaillent les déserts

In the eyes of those who anxiously seek perfection, a work is never truly completed—a word that for them has no sense—but abandoned.

Aux yeux de ces amateurs d'inquiétude et de perfection, un ouvrage n'est jamais achevé, – mot qui pour eux n'a aucun sens, – mais abandonné.

Bedrijfsresultaten - die steeds een selectief beeld van de werkelijkheid bieden - woren elektronisch geregistreerd, gegroepeerd en verwerkt, nagenoeg zonder dat er nog eigenlijk denkwerk aan te pas komt.

Pourquoi travailler ? Parce qu'on n'éprouve plus, tant qu'on travaille, le sentiment, toujours tapi à l'arrière-plan de la conscience, qu'on mourra tôt ou tard ; et, dans mon cas, qu'on mourra bientôt.

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

You're dealing with a deadly disease. There is no way you're going to be able to work and fight this battle at the same time.

These may be good people, but now I realize they work in a broken system

There's something flabby about teaching in a place like this," He said. "If you don't have to exert yourself once in a while, you begin–or at least I do–to feel like a headwaiter leading people to the second-best table.

She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate.

Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.

Ernest always said there was a season for everything. A season to love and be loved. To work and rest your bones and your spirit. To dream and to doubt, to fear and to fly. What season was this, then, if not one of ruin?

I needed peace just as much as he did, and to believe in the value of my work again. I wanted to run far away until the dark voices in my head quieted. But his needs upstaged mine.

You are not thinking of reading law, are you? he said. Oh God no! John Calley stood holding the paint can. I am looking for honest work.

Vesey said there would be the men coming home, towns going up. That's the place for a free nigger, is freighting. That's what the free niggers did in the South, done it for years. White men don't care if you freight or barber. Now I don't want to be a barber. I'd cut somebody's ear off by mistake and they'd lynch me. "Don't make jokes like that," said Britt.

He said it was an "opportunity to excel," which basically meant the job sucked and no one else wanted to do it.

but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with one eye closed.

at that time on the walls at home we had five or six large, very bold paintings of scenes of Stuart working on the dustbins with the regular workmen. I'm sure Tracy Emin could interpret that. He loved that job, the team spirit of the older men. It was a lowly work holiday job but he really enjoyed it.