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Quotes About Work

I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
~ Ernest Hemingway
So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the rights of all men to work and not be hungry. I love thee as I love Madrid that we have defended and as I love all my comrades that have died. And many have died. Many. Many. Thou canst not think how many. But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.
~ Ernest Hemingway
This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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 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.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He talked of his work as something altogether apart from himself. There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and one has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley
~ Ernest Hemingway
Don Guillermo's house was no house, since he had not much money and was only a fascist to be a snob and to console himself that he must work for little
~ Ernest Hemingway
leer servía para no pensar en el trabajo ni preocuparse hasta el momento de reemprenderlo.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have worked all my life. In all that remains of my life I must work. I have no complaints against work. To work is normal.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I'd had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Someone once asked Dad: "But what do you want to save time for? What are you going to do with it?" "For work, if you love that best," said Dad. "For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure." He looked over the top of his pince-nez. "For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies.
~ Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. [...] The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.
~ Ernst Bloch