Quotes About Work

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.

I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

16Then justice shall abide in the wilderness And righteousness shall dwell on the farm land. 17For the work of righteousness shall be peace, And the effect of righteousness, calm and confidence forever.

And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?

In Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us,* the authors state that distractions consume an average of 2.1 hours per day.

He gave it to the use of the Industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it)." People

Okay, let's say that a metamove or metagesture is when the author intentionally draws attention to a work's genre, its very existence as fiction or nonfiction.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.

In the early years of my work in this field, I observed as an elite crew of law professors and media experts, State Department officials, and corporate executives sought solutions that centered free expression issues that aligned, almost perfectly, with the goals of the US government.

If you're not working on behalf of your own mission and purpose, you're working on behalf of someone else's.

When we have the habit of setting as a goal only activity that we can accomplish and that is genuinely productive, we've taken the first step to getting some real work done. Rather than succeeding or not succeeding almost by accident in the service of some goal that's really beyond our control, we've taken the first step to taking responsibility for our actions and to end what is, really, self-deception (and probably companywide deception).