Quotes About Work

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.

I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.