Quotes About Work

The sky is white as clay, with no sun. Work has to be done. Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life.

As I've discussed many times, eating well means planning ahead and carefully shopping so you always have only healthy food at home, work and during travel.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

Laws of physics aside, there are no universal constants, so separating the predictable from the unpredictable is difficult work. There's no way around it.

No matter what our job title, no matter what our pay, we can choose to approach our work with dignity and care.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

e noi stiamo bene a sentirci italiani e ne siamo anche fieri e orgogliosi che capiamo che questi legami qui sono nati tra la gente che lavora mica trattati a tavolino tra diplomatici o ministri del cazzo, che di loro ci vergognamo sì,altrochè.

mieux la retrouver au terme du travail de reconstruction de l'espace dans lequel l'auteur se trouve englobé et « compris comme un point ».

It's amazing to know that my work as a Artist can influence women around the world, and my visions for new products can shape the future of beauty for women.

I decide to go direct to Key West... I know the place quite well, and it's near the points in Florida that I wish to visit. I have an idea at present of doing some work but do not know how long that will last.

Mom only gets angry when I don't visit her enough. She raised six kids to be 100 percent independent and work for everything we achieve. I mean, we don't expect anything for free.

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.

After school, my mom would pick me up and I would just go to visit my dad in the recording studio, and I would see him working with Mark Hamill or hear him doing the 'Transformers' or a 'G.I. Joe' or the 'Rugrats.'