Quotes About Work

I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.

The SS experimented briefly in 1944 with using Hollerith cards and tabulators to steer the deployment of camp inmates to work sites but soon gave up on the idea.

dialectical origins. This is not a book driven by a thesis that the author wants to prove but rather a work that emerged out of the give-and-take of many years of teaching and public speaking,

A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup - a man like that surely puts us all to shame.

Sometimes I think that's all you need. A good man with a fishing tip, a wave. A woman once in a while. Some work to do that might mean something. A truck that runs, that some faceless bastard two hundred miles away can't turn off. It's not much, but plenty when you don't have any of it.

Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.

What more really can be at stake except life itself, which is why maybe artists are always equating the two and driving everybody crazy by insisting that art is life. Well. Cut us some slack. It's harder work than one might imagine, and riskier, and takes a very special and dear kind of mad person.

While God did rest from His creative work, since the Fall He has never rested from His redemptive work.

In making my work meaningful to others, I had also made it compelling to myself. No longer was I just working on somebody else's problems. I was part of an intellectual enterprise with relatively well-defined goals, which might actually make a difference to humanity.

And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her fatherís sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

Finish this weekís celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”

Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.

“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.

You know that I have served your father with all my strength.

One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.

When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ëWhat is your occupation?í

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”