Quotes About Work

No, I work for the newspaper, the Miami News. The hip-hopper's stare was blank. "What channel?" The future of my chosen profession looked bleak.

Yes. All the worth-while things in life. All mixed up. Rooms in candle-light. Leisure. Colour. Travel. Books. Music. Pictures. People—all kinds of people. Work that you love. And growth—growth and watching people grow. Feeling very strongly about things and then developing that feeling to—to make

No hay en toda la Tierra gente más aficionada al trabajo que los catalanes. Si supieran hacer algo, se harían los amos del mundo.

Al final —concluyó con abatimiento—, ya no sabía qué estaba haciendo allí. Sólo sabía que, fuera lo que fuese, no tenía el menor sentido. —Esto que acabas de describir —le dije— se llama trabajar.

Necesitamos, por ello, una persona conocedora de los ambientes menos gratos de nuestra sociedad, cuyo nombre pueda ensuciarse sin perjuicio de nadie, capaz de realizar por nosotros el trabajo y de la que, llegado el momento, podamos desembarazarnos sin empacho.

One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principals of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

Everyone should learn a manual trade. It's never too late to become an honest person.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Or so it is with me. Thus my writing life consists of spells of languor alternating with fits and spasms of mad typing. At all times, though, I keep a journal, a record book, and most everything begins in the form of notes scribbled down on the pages of that journal.

What little thinking I do is my own and I do it on government time.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Don't forget the time change. Tomorrow when you leave for work it will be later than when you woke up.

Especially riches pulled from the ground. Two-thirds of all American workers labored on farms, with sweat and muscle the only fuels. "There was no quittin' time and no startin' time," a folk proverb declared. "It was all the time.

I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a fireman. The position may, in the eyes of some, appear to be a lowly one; but we who know the work which the fireman has to do believe that his is a noble calling. Our proudest moment is to save lives.

We make money the old-fashioned way. We earn it.

A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play.

Hang by your thumbs, everybody! Write if you get work!

Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence.

Though little, I'll work as hard as a Turk,If you'll give me employ,To plow and sow, and reap and mow,And be a farmer's boy.

The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.

When safety is a factor, call in a contractor.

Hewers of wood and drawers of water.