Quotes About Work

To create success in your business, you have to protect your capacity to serve others by learning to work efficiently and effectively.

I work too hard and I love it too much.

She works hard because she has to. She isn't attempting to discern an elusive calling. She is raising her babies, working for a living, doing the best she can with what she has. Her purpose may not venture outside the walls of her home. We will never know her name. She probably won't step into leadership or innovation or advocacy or social revolution. Yet she is also worthy of the calling she has received.

The love of God and people is the whole substance of life. Nothing is more important. This is sacred work and very much counts.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. . . .

Cooking dinner is a sacred gateway from work to rest, from seven separate lives to one shared table.

the basic tools that have always produced amazing young adults: hard work, failure, simplicity, gratefulness, restraint and discipline.

We're taught that if we keep working harder, somehow the money will come. If this was true, all rich people would be bloodshot and gasping for air instead of sailing around on yachts.

She did her homework. She studied her industry, the people she'd love to work with, and learned creative ways to sell by finding common ground between herself and prospects that were "out of her league.

If you want to help the world and yourself, keep your frequency high and do your work from a place of power and joy.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

Addie was here by her own choice, lying on a very comfortable bed, while a hot man who didn't look at her with boredom was running around somewhere, insisting she take it easy while he did all the work. Dreams really did come true.

That was the problem with having a job – having to associate with people you wouldn't sit next to on the subway.

I don't understand why it's such a terrible thing for a woman to want wealth, anyway; we have as much right to it as a man. It isn't our fault if there's no way to get it except through a male; if jobs are closed to us, or if men themselves make it too dangerous for a woman to work in the open alone. We can resign ourselves to being poor, or being prey; there is no in between!

But even if that were true, I was working hard. I didn't know how not to.

That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.

I'll supervise, shall I?" offered Cogsworth. "To me, 'dust' is a four-letter word." "'Dust' is a four-letter word to everyone ," said Lumiere. "'Work' is also a four-letter word," said Plumette, under her breath. "Perhaps that is why monsieur strives to avoid it

And it's time you learnd there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your witing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.

We're not talking about your life. We're talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it's time you learned there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your writing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.

Since then, I've subjected my impulses to leave for work to a three-step protocol: 1) Is it necessary that I go at this moment? 2) Is there something at home that I want to avoid? 3) Will I be letting anyone down by leaving right now?

As she worked, Anna glanced occasionally at the Flossie Flirt doll wedged at the end of a shelf. She had wanted one so violently two years ago that some of her desperation seemed to have broken off and stayed inside her. It was strange and painful to discover that old longing now, in this place.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

I felt no shame whatsoever in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.