Quotes About Work

Father always maintained that a man would do more work in twelve hours, if he had a rest and all the egg-nog he could drink, morning and afternoon.

Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.

If you choose your life's work well, something bewitching can happen through your labors. Each hour you log can be a source of joy.

We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.

I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.

Just because you start the day off with nightmares doesn't mean you don't still have to go to work. Sometimes being a responsible grown-up sucked a lot.

Smart isn't just sexy; it's necessary for something this complicated to work.

Lauren Weisberger

One's true work is never merely 'my work,' but humanity's work. It's not really self-expression, unless by 'self' we mean it with a capital S, and that Self is the Self within all mankind.

The life spent in doing what you love is a different life indeed from putting yourself out for hire to the highest bidder.

you need the sustained motivation that comes from having a real passion for your work, and that requires a self-defined sense of purpose.

Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with great beards - look as grave as you will - I'll make merry work with my button-holes - I shall have 'em all to myself - 'tis a maiden subject - I shall run foul of no man's wisdom or fine sayings in it.

These days any planned thing looked good to me. What heaven to have your work cut out for you, to be part of the Big Picture -- a picture you did not have to paint yourself.

In other words, my pot doesn't work? It doesn't have a pulse, he says. I have a pulse. Kimmie offers her wrist. Wanna check?

The only people don't suffer those are the ones who never do anything

Maybe your son didn't get that job because he's not good enough. Or he's lazy. Or the other guy was better than him, no matter what his skin color. I think the white people who have been here for two hundred years are the ones pulling down the country. They don't know how to work — they've had it too easy

I have to go. Boss has this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying me.

I'm just tired and I can't sleep yet. A woman's work is never done, isn't that what the fools say?

Words are hard work. I hope they send Hairwoman to a conference or something. I'm ready to help pay for a sub.

Boss has this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying me.

If Mrs. Elliott chose to work off her upset by indulging in an orgy of baking, it was fine with me.

type my work and get it copied before delivering the original to my agent. (Not too many years before that I'd have made a carbon copy. Do you remember carbon paper? Does anybody?)

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.