Quotes About Work

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

You don't need an introduction to succeed in life. You need to have good work. Work hard. Believe in yourself

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodóvar.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

I had only two jobs my entire life Taco Bell for six months and Kroger's Food store for one day!

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

Obviously filming and working has consistently been a part of my life. I've never had a huge break of time when I wasn't working on something or promoting something.

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

I have worked all of my life, so I really don't have any hobbies.

I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.