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Quotes About Work

I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.
~ Guy Laliberte
I still enjoy what I'm doing, which is building businesses. I don't play golf. I don't have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.
~ Christoffel Wiese
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
~ Jason Alexander
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
~ Maria Edgeworth
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
~ Patrick Stewart
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
~ Katherine Boo
Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
~ Dmitri Mendeleev
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
~ William Feather
Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures - it can become selfish.
~ Peter Hitchens
I dont think Ill ever stop working, its what I do even though I dont have to - thats one of the pleasures of having your own business.
~ Rick Stein
I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
~ Florence Green
As brothers, you still get in plenty of disagreements, but I think that generally we work stuff out.
~ Ross Duffer
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
~ Nat King Cole
I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.
~ Dax Shepard
I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
~ Karen Carpenter
There are plenty of models who have children.
~ Arizona Muse
I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
~ Karen Carpenter
As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.
~ Hilary Rosen
Nowadays, the actors who say that they get plenty of scripts everyday but don't have time to go through them are nothing but big liars. The reality is - they don't even have a single script in their hand!
~ Kashmira Shah
I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.
~ Samantha Akkineni
I am greedy for both Hollywood and Bollywood. For me, Bollywood is not new, as it is something that I grow up on... I know the plot... stories and characters that are written and made. I haven't got the right opportunity to show my work in Bollywood.
~ Tena Desae
There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.
~ Kevin Bacon
You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.
~ Michael Vartan