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Quotes About Work

Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,And Hope without an object cannot live.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.
~ Samuel West
It is not "higher" to be poor, for it often takes money to accomplish your life's work.
~ Sanaya Roman
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
Certainly our market economy places less value on the work of cleaning houses or working in a child-care center than it does on financial management, the practice of medicine, or jobs in manufacturing. To the extent that these latter fields have been understood as male domain, they represent a piece of the male-dominated system that keeps women in subjugated roles.
~ Sandra Hack Polaski
Being a Viking's guarian angel is hard work...
~ Sandra Hill
Silence followed, because they all knew there wasn't an extra twenty-five thousand in their treasury, not since the sewer project that was completed last summer. "I've already ordered the work
~ Sandra Hill
Secangkir kopi yang dengan tenang menunggu kau minum itu tidak pernah mengusut kenapa kau bisa membedakan aromanya dari asap yang setiap hari kau hirup ketika berangkat dan pulang kerja di kota yang semakin tidak bisa mengerti kenapa mesti ada secangkir kopi yang tersedia di atas meja setiap pagi
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
When we have to think strategically, we also have to accept our complicity: we forgo any illusions of purity; we give up the safety of exteriority. If we are not exterior to the problem under investigation, we too are the problem under investigation. Diversity work is messy, even dirty, work.
~ Sara Ahmed
Doing diversity work has taught me that agreeing to something is one of the best ways of stopping something from happening. Agreeing to something is an efficient technique for stopping something because organizations can avoid the costs of disagreement.
~ Sara Ahmed
In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project.
~ Sara Gran
I could hear her [Vic's Italian mother] saying, "Yes, Vic, you are pretty -- but pretty is no good. Any girl can be pretty -- but to take care of yourself you must have brains. And you must have a job, a profession. You must work.
~ Sara Paretsky
Ms. Marin usually worked über-long hours at McManus & Tate, her Philadelphia advertising firm.
~ Sara Shepard
I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.
~ Sara Sheridan
I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.
~ Sara Sheridan
Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?
~ Sarah Arthur
In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.
~ Neil Young
It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
~ Owen Wilson
If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.
~ Ray Kroc
The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
~ William Feather
Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.
~ Bill Gates
The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls.
~ Dana Gould
Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.
~ Edouard Boubat