Quotes About Work

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily.

tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk

tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk or a curate, while much less expense by way of show was required of him

Possibly they would be consigned to the Hospital for Incurable Bores, and made to work at being bored for so many hours a day by the Erewhonian inhabitants of the hospital, who are extremely impatient of one another's boredom, but would soon die if they had no one whom they might bore--in fact, that they would be kept as professional borees.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

We will do much more for the happiness of the lower classes," utopian socialist Victor Considerant wrote, "for their real emancipation and true progress, in guaranteeing these classes well-remunerated work, than in winning political rights and a meaningless sovereignty for them. The most important of the people's rights is the right to work.

I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.

to my office till very late, and my eyes began to fail me, and be in pain which I never felt to now-a-days, which I impute to sitting up late writing and reading by candle-light.

Úgy hozta hát a véletlen, hogy lássam a király lefejezését a White Hall udvarán, és lássam az els? vért is, amely a király megbosszulására kiontatott a Charing Crosson. Polcokat állítattam be dolgozószobámba.

If the situation of a technological society was such that there could be no direct relation between a man's work and his modus vivendi, other than money, at least he must feel that he is directly changing things by his work, shaping things, making things that weren't there before, moving things from one place to another. He must exert energy in his work and see these changes occur with his own eyes. Otherwise he would feel his life was futile.

So we've set up I guess you'd call it a commune. Here, in the park. People get food, work together, know they have some sort of protection. We try to be as organic as possible, but that's getting harder and harder. When new people come into Bellona, they can get a chance to learn how things operate here. We don't take in everybody. But when we do, we're very accepting.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.