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Quotes About Work

It's a life choice to be a girl chef, as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to me. It's a full-time, full-scale, full physical job, and a lot of times, it can take the place of kids and family. To be in this career is much more difficult for a woman to have a family, marriage - whatever that means. It's not a 9-5 job.
~ Anne Burrell
I was brought up in a restaurant, I've worked in catering my whole life up until I was 20 full-time almost, I was a chef for my dad for many years.
~ Gok Wan
Being me is a full-time job.
~ Chelsea Manning
I have always had a full-time job. I have always worked full time.
~ Arlene Phillips
I wear false eyelashes at work so I get used to that fuller look all the time, so when I get home, I'm like 'ugh, it's not the same.'
~ Frankie Bridge
If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.
~ Tom Vilsack
When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.
~ Daniel Levitin
My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.
~ Jeffrey Jones
It's a ridiculous function of modern work life that we can't just be sick, we then have to beat ourselves up about being sick.
~ Katty Kay
I've always liked working with an archetypal design, something functional.
~ Grayson Perry
Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
~ Sufjan Stevens
You know, all work has dignity. I fundamentally believe that. So all paychecks must have dignity.
~ John Fetterman
Fundamentally, I do a job at which I can make a living and I like it. That's the bottom line. I still really enjoy it. I like getting up and going to work. I've spent my whole adult creative life doing this.
~ Douglas Henshall
Well actually the beauty of my work is after doing over 1,000 readings bringing through non-celebrities, celebrities as a soul everybody fundamentally comes through the same way.
~ Tyler Henry
I had to work on the fundamentals of the game because in league, the position I played, it was just bash and crash.
~ Sonny Bill Williams
Many times, one does get interesting work, but it is also work that doesn't get funded because one sure-shot way to get funding is to take a big star.
~ Konkona Sen Sharma
My mom works in funerals, and my dad works at Burger King.
~ Kelly Marie Tran
That's all right! That's all right!' But for a minute or two it wasn't really. All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities - even merely with the velvet. He added: 'Your mother works you very hard.
~ Ford Madox Ford
being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair
~ Ford Madox Ford
The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men at all: whilst the army officer, who had the inexact mind of the schoolteacher, was a manly man? Quite a manly man: until he became an old woman!
~ Ford Madox Ford
Christ was a sort of an Englishman, and Englishmen did not, as a rule, refuse to do their jobs .
~ Ford Madox Ford
Any institution that distributes the resources men and women depend upon for survival can exert control over them: the occasion of giving vitally needed assistance can easily become the occasion of inculcating the work ethic, for example, and of enforcing work itself, for those who resist risk the withdrawal of that assistance.
~ Frances Fox Piven
Have you done your work?" she asked. "Dare you stay here a few minutes?" Becky lost her breath again. "Here, miss? Me?" Sara ran to the door, opened it, and looked out and listened. "No one is anywhere about," she explained. "If your bedrooms are finished, perhaps you might stay a tiny while. I thought--perhaps--you might like a piece of cake." The next ten minutes seemed to Becky like a sort of delirium.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett