Quotes About Work

and they took pride in their professionalism and expertise.

I was also dismayed that some people who had known or worked with me—like Reinhart, Posen, and Goodfriend—seemed disinclined to give us the benefit of the doubt.

work and help stave off deflation.

When not consulting or traveling to speak at meetings and conferences, I work on various projects at the Brookings Institution

If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But if his own conceptions are limited and narrow in their human meaning it seems likely that time will erase his work.

A man may be judged by his standard of entertainment as easily as by the standard of his work.

because it is an industry that's about ideas, and if you treat disagreement as a source of harm or personal safety, then it's very challenging to do good work."14 The threat to core American values is only increasing.

In reality, the Democratic vision of the world centers on the notion that work itself is a great evil to be avoided, and that any program allowing people to free themselves of work — whether to finger-paint or start a garage band — is an unmitigated good.

young go into the profession with dread, the old can scarcely wait for retirement, and those of the middle years yearn for sabbaticals.

The people who occupy the professoriate have not had to work a real job – a job with real-world consequences -- in over 30 years.

We heard the shots in the night But nobody knew next day what the trouble was And a man must go to his work.

He went to Los Angeles to do the work even though he hated the city; it was full of happy homogeneous people without structure or direction. While on the bus to work, it seemed to him Los Angeles went on long after it had already made its point.

Yes, madam, I am finished. My star has fallen. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce.... I await the end of the tragedy and – strangely detached from everything – I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators.

Don Baldomero hadn't been able to disengage himself from that very Spanish concept, to wit: parents must work so that their children may rest and enjoy themselves.

Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

Preguntóle Fago si no había en su casa algún hombre forzudo que quisiese trabajar, a lo que respondió la anciana que en su familia no había más hombre que su hija Ignacia, la cual tenía una fuerza como la de una vaca.

"Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues"

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.