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Quotes About Work

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.
~ Ashley Tisdale
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
~ Augusten Burroughs
The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.
~ Ayn Rand
What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.
~ Bill Rancic
Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. Its not glam.
~ Billy Boyd
Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.
~ Brad Garrett
I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.
~ Bradley Cooper
I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.
~ Brian Eno
Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.
~ Brigham Young
It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.
~ Cameron Diaz
Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.
~ Carnie Wilson
I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.
~ Carnie Wilson
I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it.
~ Chi McBride
Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.
~ Chloe Sevigny
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
~ Edward Gibbon
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
~ Edward Gibbon
Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
~ Edward H. Dreschnack
Life without work is unworthy of being lived.
~ EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH
I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
~ Edward Hirsch
As a customer's man, his best brokerage work was securing the old age of his clients: time for them to do what they wished.
~ Edward Hoagland
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
~ Edward Hopper
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
~ Edward Kennedy
For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
~ Edward Kennedy