Quotes About Work

Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above. ("In The Court Of The Dragon")

A year's work can be ruined quickly, sometimes within seconds, if roasting isn't done well.

People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.

If people are basically selfish -and they are- then asking them to work hard yet earn no more than their unproductive neighbor is asking more than they'll rarely give. But we already know that; communism has failed.

Se imaginaban nuevamente en un desmesurado salón de muros encristalados cuyo centro lo ocupaba una mesa redonda. Sus cuatro secretarios con papeles en las manos y las plumas tras de la oreja se acercaban a consultarle, mientras que en un rincón, con los sombreros en las manos, inclinadas las cabezas canosas, estaban los delegados de los obreros. Y Erdosain volviéndose hacia ellos les decía simplemente: «O mañana vuelven al trabajo o los fusilaremos».

Il futuro è nostro, per prepotenza di lavoro. Creeremo la nostra letteratura, non conversando continuamente di letteratura, ma scrivendo in orgogliosa solitudine libri che avranno la violenza di un gancio alla mandibola. Sì, un libro dopo l'altro, e "che gli eunuchi sbuffino pure".

Siempre la misma vida: estarse reventando para nada. Decime, Rengo, ¿tiene sentido esta vida? Trabajamos para comer y comemos para trabajar. "Minga" de alegría, "minga" de fiestas, y todos los días lo mismo, Rengo. Esto "esgunfia" ya. —Cierto, Rubio, tenés razón... ¿Así que te animás? —Sí. —Entonces esta noche damos el golpe.

Tempus breve est, Ora et labora. We aren't given much time on this earth.

Silence hovers in the yards, leaving no pages with writing on them, that thing we'll later call the work.

Tempus breve est, Ora et labora. We aren't given much time on this earth. We have to pray and work, not go pushing our luck with soccer pools.

yo me gano la vida escribiendo, muchachos, les dije, en este país de la chingada Octavio Paz y yo somos los únicos que nos ganamos la vida de esa manera.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

for angels and anointings work together.

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it.

I passed that day in pleasure, which is to say, in the sort of work I wanted to do rather than the work that I thought I ought to be doing.

Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day.

Work, the old people say, keeps a man young. But perhaps that is something old folk say just because they know they must go on working.

There isn't much in a man's head that can't be cured by working and taking care of something else

I'm proud of you. It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it. Be proud of yourself.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

Wherever she exists, she labors: her work as homemaker or mother, as prostitute or nun, is erased because it's considered natural; her work in farm, factory, or office is marginalized because it's considered unskilled, transient, or migratory.