Quotes About Work

Work: Not to rouse pity, not to win sympathy or admiration. Only this: Activity.

Do thy work not as a drudge, nor as desirous of pity or praise. Desire one thing only, to act or not to act as civic reason directs.

Y entonces amigo mío? haz lo que exige de ti la naturaleza, manos a la obra mientras haya lugar, y no te preocupes por si te imitan. No sueñes en ver establecida la republica de Platón, antes bien, conténtate con tal que progreses un poco, considerando que no es poco fruto este pequeño resultado

while people might care which company they join, they don't care which company they work for. The truth is that, once there, people care which team they're on.

You'll see, as well, that the strongest force pushing back against the lies, and the force that we all seek to harness in our lives, is the power of our own individuality—that the true power of human nature is that each human's nature is unique, and that expressing this through our work is an act, ultimately, of love.

Jesus, then, was not just a prophet announcing the kingdom. He believed that the kingdom was breaking in to Israel's history in and through his own presence and work. This is the third layer of my historical portrait of his mission and message.

All this means that we can add a fourth stroke to our historical portrait of Jesus. He was a first-century Jewish prophet, announcing God's kingdom, believing that the kingdom was breaking in through his own presence and work, and summoning other Jews to abandon alternative kingdom visions and join him in his.

All this means that we can add a fourth stroke to our historical portrait of Jesus. He was a first-century Jewish prophet, announcing God's kingdom, believing that the kingdom was breaking in through his own presence and work, and summoning other Jews to abandon alternative kingdom visions and join him in his. But what would happen if they refused?

Si la clase media sirve para algo es para trabajar y pagar impuestos, con los que podamos sobornar a la plebe de Roma y tenerla contenta y mantenerla dócil. Es cierto que los plebeyos de Roma son como animales, pero son muchos y necesitamos sus votos para alcanzar el poder. Que la clase media nos sirva hasta el final, porque los nuevos ciudadanos no piensan mas que en trabajo.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. —KURT VONNEGUT JR.

This did not prevent him from going to print shop every morning and working as conscientiously as ever, following the advice of Yochanan ben Zakkai: 'If you are planting an olive tree when you learn that the Messiah has come, finish planting the olive tree and then go to greet the messiah.

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you're on your own. ­Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.

It's always an advantage to have something to do with your hands. That way, if someone makes an inappropriate remark, you can pretend you haven't heard it. Then you don't have to answer.

But it will take a considerable amount of work. Women have been told for so long that they can achieve equality in the professional and public spheres. They will not welcome the…" I sought for a word. "The segregation." "It was always a cruelty to promise them equality," he said, "since by their nature they can never achieve it. We have already begun the merciful task of lowering their expectations.

His head is a little below mine, so that when he looks up at me it's at a juvenile angle. It must amuse him, this fake subservience. (...) The problem wasn't only the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. There was nothing for them any more. (...) That was part of it, the sex was too easy. Anyone could just buy it. There was nothing to work for, nothing to fight for. (...)

If I was going to do something I didn't want to do, I at least wanted to be remunerated for it.

Lucky in work, unlucky in love.

It's when we stop and think that we rediscover the courage, wit, compassion, imagination, delight, frustration, discovery, and devotion that work can provoke—in short, all the things at work that do count, beyond measure.

Over 100 years of research into productivity has shown that, after about forty hours a week, when we work longer, we make more mistakes – and the extra time goes to cleaning them up, the mess we made. 'We see it here in England and in the

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Times never change when there's a need for honest work to be done.

La terra è la sola cosa al modo che valga qualche cosa [...] perché è la sola cosa al mondo che rimanga e, non dimenticarlo!, la sola cosa per cui vale la pena di lavorare, di lottare... di morire.