Quotes About Work

Orate est laborare, laborare est orare [To pray is to work, to work is to pray].

Seesaw, Margery Daw,Jacky shall have a new master;Jacky must have but a penny a day,Because he can work no faster.

What shall we do with the drunken sailor,Early in the morning?

Hooray and up she risesEarly in the morning.

Oh, the times are hard and the wages low;Leave her, Johnny, leave her!I'll pack my bag and go below.It's time for us to leave her!

Oh, blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down!To me way-aye, blow the man down.Oh, blow the man down, bullies, blow him right down!Give me some time to blow the man down!

If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.

Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally - that was a mans life.

Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.

attempt to understand the true nature of worldly feelings, namely, the feelings of self-promotion, self-glorification. They are not natural, they were invented by your society and your culture to make you productive and to make you controllable. These feelings do not produce the nourishment and happiness that is produced when one contemplates Nature or enjoys the company of one's friends or one's work. They were meant to produce thrills, excitement—and emptiness.

Once you've done that, consider the true nature of worldly feelings, namely, the feelings of self-promotion and self-glorification. They are not natural; they were invented by your society and your culture to make you productive and controllable. Those feelings don't produce the nourishment and happiness that comes about from contemplating nature, enjoying the company of friends, or loving your work. They were meant to produce thrills, excitement—and emptiness.

Sometimes," he says, "when I feel like working, I just sit and wait for the feeling to pass

His mind, while he works, is almost quiet, almost calm. This is an act of memory.

beach. Everyone who can must work to strengthen

Other times, the corpses bear no apparent injuries, and it is these that fill Jutta with dread: people who look like they are a moment away from rising up and slogging back to work with the rest of them.

Our motto instead is, "Work—or do anything at all, so long as you do not pray, or even come to an awareness of your frailty." Turn up the noise.

He seems to be giving his people a (mostly) gently worded lecture on their lack of willingness to work even when it appears almost pointless to do so. For that reason, the book should have been titled Hillbilly Reprimand, because Vance doesn't want to mourn his hillbilly family. He wants to make them good proletarians like they allegedly were in the twentieth century.

My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.

know the truth now and it's that Richard betrayed us,' she said. 'He looked after us. He gave us money. He got me work. He pretended to be my friend. But all along he'd been lying to us. He knew perfectly well what had happened at Long Way Hole. If he hadn't been such a coward, Charlie would still be alive.

felt particularly sorry for Judith Matheson. She'd put so much work into organising the weekend and what had she got out of it? A dead sponsor, a cut-up lawn and a divorce.

Literary festivals all over the country turn writers into performers and open doors into their private lives that, I often think, would be better left closed. In my view, it's more satisfying to learn about authors from the work they produce rather than the other way round.

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.

To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.

I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.