Quotes About Work

I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.

Do you want to know what 'special' really means, my darling? It means more training, more work, more study, more discipline, more rules.

He waited until they were driving to work before he mentioned the morning field trip. "Why do a field trip?" Meg asked. "Because someone untied its shoes?" Meg frowned. "That makes no sense." "It makes as much sense as most human jokes." "That's true." Simon

Sore laborers have hard hands and old sinners have brawny consciences.

We can know what the Lord wants us to do—and experience 'the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work' (Alma 26:3). . . . "To truly be an instrument in the hands of God, in order to fully have that blessing bestowed upon us in 'the day of this life' in which we 'perform [our] labors' (Alma 34:32), we must, as Elder Maxwell says, 'finally submit ourselves' (Ensign, Nov. 1995, 24) to the Lord.

The fact that women work is no reason to suppose that they have altered their personalities. From an evolutionary point of view, the oddity is that there have been historical periods when women did not work. Without the calories that women provided through gathering tubers, vegetables, and honey, families would have starved. What marks our present-day environment as special is not the fact of women working but of women having to leave their children in order to do so.

Perhaps Jonas is learning that bread without butter is no better for the spirit than all butter and no bread. Jonas has always been so serious. He hasn't realized that rest and fun and laughter are as important as work," she [Mother] looked down at her work-roughened hands, "though they don't always come as often as we wish.

During the summers, she worked with the fit-ups.

Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. ISAIAH 64:8

May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us — yes, establish the work of our hands. PSALM 90:17

I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. JOHN 17:4

Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives. TITUS 3:14

Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the still waters! He was very powerful, and the fact that He expected you to think for yourself and do something in return for His help did not matter, as long as you could work things out.

Every little girl 'did her knitting stint' each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.

I was sick of pretending, sick of selling my feelings for a dollar a day.

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

I have yet to find, anyway, that those who urge the broad, philosophical view with respect to the work of others are quite so broad or philosophical when it comes to the correct attribution of their own productions.

I should be working and not writing you. But this is a missing you, where are you, hello and necessary for my soul.

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

Balance" is a luxury. Equality is a necessity. When we stop talking about work-life balance and start talking about discrimination against care and caregiving, we see the world differently.

leaning in when you have significant caregiving responsibilities requires an intensive support structure at home and lots of flexibility at work.

Dan Kahan's work on motivated reasoning also indicates that smart people are not better equipped to combat bias—and may even be more susceptible.

In the humdrum routine of personal existence, History did not matter. We were simply happy or unhappy, depending on the day. The more immersed we were in work and family, said to be reality, the greater was our sense of unreality.

Je fais du jardinage, je sarcle la pente et je me souviens d'octobre dernier où, dans la douleur, parce qu'il ne m'avait pas appelée, je travaillais là, de la même manière.