Quotes About Work

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlor remains clean.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: "You only wrriter, or your work also?" "I hope to teach English one day.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Get to it, already. I'm working the afternoon shift and I don't want to be late.

Life is constant change, and nowhere is this more marked than in a village which used to be a centre of work and is now largely an escape from it.

People reserve their best thinking for their professional specialties and, next in line, for serious matters confronting the alert citizen--economics, politics, the disposal of nuclear waste, etc. The day's work done, they want to be entertained.

one of the first rules of police work is that trouble will always come looking for you, so there's no point looking for it.

For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal.

The principal advantages of living in your station's section house is that it is cheap, close to work and it's not your parents' flat. The disadvantages are that you're sharing your accommodation with people too weakly socialised to live with normal human beings, and who habitually wear heavy boots. The weak socialisation makes opening the fridge an exciting adventure in microbiology, and the boots mean that every shift change sounds like an avalanche.

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

So sure, I had to dig out of a little insecurity hole vocally, but I don't blame my parents for this. We are all a work in progress.

Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.

He who partakes the honor, should participate in the labor.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

This is the intelligence technique known as "coat trailing," dangling a potential recruit before the opposition in the hope that, if recruited, he or she can then be put to work as a double agent.

He revealed nothing about Ursula's activities and his own work on behalf of Soviet intelligence.

Secrets are the currency of intelligence work, and among professional spies a little calculated indiscretion raises the exchange rate.

Eventually I was entrusted to work the cash register.

I saw little evidence of an emerging consensus in favor of them and widespread confusion about how they would work.

McCain, despite having asked for the meeting, seemed unwilling to work actively for a solution.

Yet I was feeling far from overworked.

and employees at all levels were prepared to work as many hours as needed.