Quotes About Work

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

A good work efficiency project should not cost a dollar...

O Time: hold still awhile. I have so much more work to do. There are so many things I want to express. But time just keeps ticking away, and the earth never for an instant ceases to turn.

to choose your partner so that you can continue working is a lot more constructive that giving one up.

Even the wisest man grows tense/with some sort of violence/before he can accomplish fate,/know his work or choose his mate.

When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring.

"Of all Your work, not a thing You have forgotten; You did not add, and You did not subtract." It is a mandatory law that perfect operations stem from the perfect Operator.

Healing is a choice. It's not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen.

Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods have become like us. Ergo, we have become as gods.

If [modern artists] hadn't lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for 'art' that leaves him unmoved.

The hardest work is to go idle.

The only miracles of any value are the ones you work.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.

Then I noticed the pack of cigarettes in my other pocket. I took one out and started smoking. I felt like a man who settles down for a smoke after finishing a job of work. I wanted to live.

Se había entregado al trabajo con la esperanza de haberlo ya olvidado, pero cuando dejaba la tienda el último cliente y el local quedaba en calma, le llegaba el burbujeo de la fuente del patio y, al escucharlo, el terror la asediaba. Entonces, se daba cuenta de que estaba esperando...

History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.

It's reasonable to assume, for example, that bulls prefer to spend their days wandering over open prairies in the company of other bulls and cows rather than pulling carts and ploughshares under the yoke of a whip-wielding ape.

This volatility will also make it more difficult to organize unions or secure labor rights.