Quotes About Work

The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now.

There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.

Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I'm worth it.

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

Woody [Harrelson] and I actually worked together years ago on North Country. So I felt completely at ease.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

There is something infinitely better than happily ever after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily ever after. Would you not agree?

Marriage is work." She frowned. "Yeah, but what exactly does that mean?" Car doors closing had Jo glancing out the window in time to see Brody get out of his Bronco. He moved with steady, determined strides to Jim and shook his hand. "Sometimes I think it means staying and accepting the other person when all you want to do is run. Giving the storm time to pass, knowing smooth waters are ahead.

she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

Your work is not only books and pictures. They are but bits of it. Your work is You, not less than you, not parts of you… These days when you "cannot work" are accomplishing it, are of it, like the days when you "can work." There is no division. It is all one. Your living is all of it; anything less is part of it. — Your silence will be read with your writings some day, your darkness will be part of the Light.

When the fever of life is over and our work is done… may He give us a safe lodging and a holy rest and peace at the last.

The key to success is the plan your work and work your plan.

I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote for any cause but money," Samuel Johnson said.)

You're working so hard, burning the candle at both ends. Up early, home late. When are you going to stop and smell the roses?

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums...

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. (from The Messenger)

Reading, then writing, then desiring to write well, shaped in me that most joyful of circumstances—a passion for work.

that is to say, having chosen to claim my life, I have made for myself, out of work and love, a handsome life.

I read Jacob Boehme and am caught in his shining web. Here are Desire and Will that should be (he says) as two arms at one task; in my life they are less cooperative. Will keeps sliding away down the hill, to play when work is called for, and Desire piously wants to labor when the best season of merriment is around me. Troublemakers, both of them.