Quotes About Work

I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.

I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

Working is a big part of me and my life and I wasn't happy to stay at home - I'm a workaholic.

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.

I spent time on set in New York and Berlin sitting next to Steven Spielberg while he worked, which was the biggest thrill of my life.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

But you can't work for a man you don't trust. Etch that in stone.

Nothing in my work on UFO abductions has surprised me as much as the discovery that what is happening to the earth has not gone unnoticed elsewhere in the universe.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.