Quotes About Work

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.

Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

It's one of the most important things in life to provide someone with a job.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.