Quotes About Work

Our beliefs about traditional marriage date from agrarian cultures, where you made everything you ate or wore or used, where large extended families helped get this huge amount of work done so nobody starved, and where marriage was a working proposition. When we talk about "traditional family values," this is the family we are talking about: an extended family of grandparents and aunts and cousins, an organization to accomplish the work of staying alive.

People often learn about starvation economies in childhood, when parents who are emotionally depleted or unavailable teach us that we must work hard to get our emotional needs met, so that if we relax our vigilance for even a moment, a mysterious someone or something may take the love we need away from us.

I am not suggesting you shouldn't work hard, but I am suggesting that if you are defining your value by the chase—by your ambition, your work, and your achievement—then you are simply chasing after the wind, and ultimately, it is meaningless.

The good news is God isn't waiting for your perfect youth talk to do a mighty work through you.

How to deal with the chauvinism was something else again. Anne Beatts wanted to confront it directly, in unity, perhaps by forming a "coalition" to take their grievances to Lorne. Marilyn Miller didn't go for that. The show was no different from any corporate environment, she said: You either put up quality work or shut up. Organized movements got you nowhere.

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Don't fucking work hard, dummy, you die at the end! Didn't anyone tell you?

People come up to you and say, "Oh man, that's the scariest thing in the world what you do, talk in front of people." It's not scary to me. Your job is scary to me, fucking selling shoes in the mall for 30 years only to have the place go out of business.

Mace Brown calmly walked over, put his arm on Carlton's shoulder, and looked into his filthy, sweat-streaked face. 'Son, I want to tell you something my daddy told me a long time ago,' he drawled. 'If you hadn't wanted to work, you oughtn't have hired out.' The words struck Carlton like a foul tip off the face mask. It sounded like one of the most profound statements of truth and essence he had ever heard.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It is my partner." —Jonas Salk

In all honesty, the difficulties with their house were mild, and most resolved. The problem seems to be with work that was not finished properly, something a tribute to pull in park to the race to build houses as fast as possible throughout Celebration.

If food were free, why work?

Our human vocation is to work and take care of the place where God has planted us, to serve him in our rule in creation as priests in his temple. Caring for the earth is not, in this light, a peripheral biblical theme; it is central to our identity as God's image bearers.

But it is also a result of young people being educated to a level at which they look down on apparently mundane or unglamorous labour. Aside from the racial insinuation that we are above such roles whereas others are eminently suited to them, we should ask ourselves why our young people are (if they are) 'above' such tasks.

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.

I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

the industrial ideal: anyone can request work, do so anonymously, never meet the employee, and reject the results without ever paying. The

many of us use what spare time and money we have earned undoing the impact of our jobs or companies. And that gets harder every day.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.