Quotes About Work

I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

That's . . . because I am pathetic. In life as in film, find your niche and work it.

Qwilleran worked hard and fast at the office that day, while the clerk in the Feature Department intercepted all phone calls and uninvited visitors with the simple explanation that permits no appeal, no argument, no exceptions. "Sorry, he's on deadline.

He worked as one of the two servants allowed Milbourne in his capacity as ship's carpenter: 'servant' in this context meaning an apprentice under training. Both

Consider the work of God, for who is able to straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity be happy, but in the day of adversity consider — God has made the one as well as the other so that man may not discover anything that will be after him. (Ecclesiastes 7:13-14, NASB)

The speed with which Anne Sexton found acceptance within the cadre of the literary elite was indeed remarkable, but it belied the work required.

How much slower the work went when the joy of it was gone.

Don't ignore your pain. Register, accept, then work with your own body to push through. Naming your pain . . . It's simply a device to help you identify and focus. If calling your pain Melvin makes you feel stupid, don't do it. Refer to it as Pain or don't call it anything at all. But acknowledge your pain threshold. Consider how your injury feels. Then work with your body to do what you need to do.

Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

One destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.