Quotes About Work

Džiaukis gyvenimu ir m?styk tik tada, kai tai reikalinga. - O kada reikalinga? - Kai nori užsidirbti pinig? arba prasimušti.

Eigentlich konnte ich ganz zufrieden sein. Es ging mir nicht schlecht, ich hatte Arbeit, ich wurde nicht leicht müde, ich war heil, wie man das so nennt - aber es war doch besser, nicht allzuviel darüber nachzudenken. Besonders nicht, wenn man allein war. Und abends auch nicht. Da kam ab und zu noch einmal etwas von früher ud starrte einen aus toten Augen an. Aber früher hatte man den Schnaps.

The solicitor for whom he used to work in Cologne has written to tell him that women are now doing the work excellently and more cheaply, whereas Jupp, during his time in the army, will have grown out of office requirements, no doubt. He deeply regrets it, so he says; the times are hard. Best wishes for the future.

We have never been a very demonstrative family – poor people who have to work hard and cope with problems very rarely are.

become works of art so detailed, so precisely articulated

I sometimes feel, the president wrote, that the world problems are getting worse instead of better. In our own country, however, in spite of sniping, 'chiseling' and growling by the extreme right and by the extreme left, we are actually putting people back to work and raising values.

He died in his bed at his farm on February 9, 1940, at 3:10 p.m., with Martha and Bill Jr. at his side, his life work—his Old South—anything but finished.

To do our work, we all have to read a mass of papers. While energy has to be spent in looking for the essential points. I ask my colleagues and their staffs to see to it that their reports are shorter.

he bought his farm. The grueling work that had so worn on him during his boyhood now became for him both a soul-saving diversion and a romantic harking back to America's past.

It's a hindrance to be lonely and isolated in one's work. Ideas stimulate ideas, and the love of writing is contagious." Martha

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

We are all well and satisfied with the amount and variety of work our good fortune has given us to do.

In the following pages I tell the story of these men and this event, but I must insert here a notice: However strange or macabre some of the following incidents may seem, this is not a work of fiction.

Spade loved money in the way only someone who grew up poor could. He understood its feckless ways and spent it joyfully. It was all a big goof to him and the more he spent the harder he had to work, which was how he liked it.

How does everybody in Hollywood work? Drake asked. By fits and starts.

He looks on an education only as a magic formula, which should enable him to go through life without work.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

There is no doubt that creative work is itself done under a compulsion often indistinguishable from a purely clinical obsession. In this sense, what we call a creative gift is merely the social license to be obsessed.

But what matters most is the aspiration to live in balance with nature, walk lightly on the land, treat the earth as a mother. No surprise that to such a morality most industrial processes, work schedules, and products are suspect!

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

In a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or fifteen minutes. Sometimes less. Sometimes a good deal less.

However you make your living is where your talent lies