Quotes About Work

if you intend to try and work, not to sit under the Tree of Idleness.

I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.

Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.

I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his talents.

I smile and think; This is my job, this is what I do for a living, and its what I've always wanted

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.