Quotes About Work

For Medieval craftsmen, work was an act of piety and was sanctified in their own eyes as in the eyes of their God. For such labourers, end and means are one and he spiritual wholeness of faith is translated into the visual wholeness and purify of their craft. hence their craft was also art, a permanent testimony to the reality on earth of humanity's spiritual redemption.

Right now, Dinabai's face, and Om's, and mine are all occupied. Worrying about work and money, and where to sleep tonight. But that does not mean we are not sad. It may not show on the face, but it's sitting inside here.' He placed his hand over his heart. 'In here, there is limitless room – happiness, kindness, sorrow, anger, friendship

Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it's when we're busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness, calm, solitude makes us less miserable.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

antisabbatical"—a job approached "with the sole intention of staying for a limited period of time (often one year)…to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity.

Belgian Draft Horses are the most popular of all draft breeds in the United States. They are one of the oldest and most powerful horses, bred for industrial work, farm work and have the ability to pull tremendous amounts of weight. The draft horse my grandfather owned whose name was Clyde was 17 hands (68 in./170 cm) tall and weighed over 2,000 pounds (900 kg). I spent a lot of time working in the field with that big black beauty and loved Clyde so much.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the former. There's far less competition. (Dwight Morrow)

Rockefeller seemed destined to succeed as much from his fastidious work habits as from innate intelligence.

His constant nightmare was that he would promote dependence, sapping the Protestant work ethic.

Don't overwork like Coster just because you can and like to do it.

To put Mr. Rockefeller's name prominently forward Ã¢â'¬Â¦ would impair the usefulness of the work.

Rockefeller also derived a glandular pleasure from work and never found it cheerless drudgery.

I have always wished, simply as a matter of satisfaction to myself, that my salary might represent the real value of my services in the office, while as it is and has been in the past it represents rather your generosity.

He hoarded his money, worked incessantly, and retained a lonely air.

One could now see in his face the subdued melancholy of a man who had sacrificed too much for work.

From the outset, the young Hamilton had phenomenal stamina for sustained work: ambitious, orphaned boys do not enjoy the option of idleness.

As we say out West, if a man can't skin he must hold a leg while somebody else does.

It is not easy to part with the wealth we have accumulated after years of hard work and difficulty

To explain his extraordinary longevity, he later said, doubtless overstating the matter, "I'm here because I shirked: did less work, lived more in the open air, enjoyed the open air, sunshine and exercise.

All that work and then, finally, something levitates. When the minute stresses of practice fade, the specialness emerges. There is a quotation from On Directing Film by David Mamet that I underlined in 1993 and have never forgotten: Stanislavsky wrote that the difficult will become easy and the easy habitual, so that the habitual may become beautiful.

Why aren't you working?" Finlay asked. I shrugged. Tried to explain. "Because I don't want to work," I said. "I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.

lawn. Yard work summed up the whole futile procedure. First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later. You curse about it getting too long, and then you worry about it staying too short and you sprinkle expensive water on it all summer, and expensive chemicals all fall.

She looked at her watch. She said, "Why is it when someone says between two hours and four hours it's always nearer four hours than two hours?" "Parkinson's disease," Shorty said. "Work expands to take up as much time as there is." "Law," Patty said. "Not disease. That's when you get the shakes.

It's something they teach you in the army. The only thing under your direct control is how hard you work. In other words, if you really, really buckle down today, and you get the intelligence, the planning, and the execution each a hundred percent exactly correct, then you are bound to prevail." "Sounds empowering." "It's the army. What they really mean is, if you fail today, it's completely your own fault.