Quotes About Work

I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their checks. But ultimately, it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

Under normal physical circumstances, there is no reason, no excuse to remain weak since methodical and steady work allows one to become strong.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

Lydia's never met a working translator as old as this before: usually they burn out, go into teaching, change careers (e.g., become drug dealers) or just retire.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

Do what you do with gladness and you will be rewarded accordingly.

Results and Roses The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

There neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified—more supremely noble than this very poem—this poem per se—this poem which is a poem and nothing more—this poem written solely for the poem's sake.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

succeeded in making a small, jerky motion. "I was only doing my job.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

Hain't life woth livin', Uncle Jabez?" she asked. He laughed a short, harsh laugh and fell silent. "Waal, I dunno, Judy," he said at last, meditatively shifting his quid of tobacco. "I reckon it makes a big diff'rence who you live it with an' a bigger diff'rence yet what work yuh lay yer hand to. Both o' them things, as I see it, is a matter of luck.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

Some people ask if I regret not having a family. Not at all. Some women are cut out to be mommies. Some are superwomen with the stamina to do it all. I am not one of them. My elementary school math teacher was right: I would have been a lousy housewife. Instead I am lucky enough to work and interact with talented and stimulating people on a job where no day is ever the same as any other. And I get to touch thousands of people in some way.