Quotes About Work

It's really great fun to go someplace where there are no timesaving devices because, when you do, you find that you have lots of time. Elsewhere, you're too busy working to pay for machines to save you time so you won't have to work so hard.

Our Bisy Backson religions, sciences, and business ethics have tried their hardest to convince us that there is a Great Reward waiting for us somewhere, and that what we have to do is spend our lives working like lunatics to catch up with it. Whether it's up in the sky, behind the next molecule, or in the executive suite, it's somehow always farther along than we are—just down the road on the other side of the world, past the moon, beyond the stars…

The athletic sort of Backson - one of the many common varieties - is concerned with physical fitness, he says. But for some reason, he sees it as something that has to be pounded in from the outside, rather than built up from the inside. Therefore, he confuses exercise with work. He works when he works, works when he exercises, and, more often than not, works when he plays. Work, work, work.

All work and no play makes Backson a dull boy. Kept up for long enough, it makes him dead, too.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

The work is the death mask of its conception.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out, armed, and relieve the idle stroller of his convictions.

Office is something that builds up a man only if he is somebody in his own right.

A test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

La rendición total trae llenura total, y su misión total trae comunión total. Pero como el matrimonio, tienes que trabajar en eso cada día: «Jesús, yo te amo»; «Padre Dios yo te adoro»; «Precioso Espíritu Santo, anhelo tu comunión». Si descuidas la comunicación sólo un día, la próxima vez será un poco más difícil.

And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.

Our work in investigating the Oklahoma City bombing reflected some of the very best the FBI has to offer.

I don't do a lot of reflecting. I'm usually about getting on with it.

I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.

The beauty of 'Parenthood' is that it's a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.

If you really want to see more work that reflects your values, you have to produce it. You have to be a contributor to the business.

I believe if the atmosphere on the set is positive, it definitely reflects on the screen. Your work becomes easy if the environment on the set is healthy and positive.

I'd like to see us Pakistani actors do more work that reflects our culture, morals and values.

It's a merger of home life and work life. They aren't that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.

I know from my days working on education reform in government that it's almost impossible to exaggerate how little those who work on education policy think about 'how to improve learning.'

My relationship with Alan Shatter is a professional relationship: obviously worked with him over the years, complimented him for his work as a reforming minister, and move on.

Working in 'Mian Maqbool' was a refreshing experience.

As for 'Jogger's Park,' it was refreshing to work with Anant Balani. As a director he's cool as a cucumber.