Quotes About Work

Wilson introduced Daylight Saving Time to America, which created an extra hour of farm work every day

Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy. The only problem is that happiness isn't logical.

To stand up straight and tread the turning mill, To lie flat and know nothing and be still, Are the two trades of man; and which is worse I know not, but I know that both are ill.

Soup kitchens were the prelude to revolution. The revolutionaries might talk about socialism, those who actually revolted wanted 'the right to work'- more capitalism, not its abolition.

It's the job, she thought. I work too hard. That's why my thoughts go round and round at night, like a hamster on a squeaking wheel.

But I feel a sense of peace when I'm working. Happiness, almost. It's when I'm not working I feel uneasy.

Il lavoro è pesante, ma stare lì a far niente guardando qualcuno che lavora è ancora più pesante, soprattutto se è vecchio

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last of those is the question I take with me to every new-music event: "Is this just a good piece of clockwork, or does it actually tell time?

Where had the Taras and Megans and Ians come from? Buried in his work, had he missed some clandestine migration of Celts from across the sea?

In my line of work, there are no money-back guarantees, because there's no money involved. These are people, not vacuum cleaners.

Sometime duty calls at ten p.m. on a Wednesday night.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral." —Frank Lloyd Wright

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.

She had died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. William Yeats, "The Choice