Quotes About Work

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

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creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity.

And there is the thing that one does, the needle one plies, the work, and within that work a chance to take thoughts that are hot and formless and to place them slowly and with meticulous effort into some shapely heat-retaining form, even as the gods, or nature, or the soundless wheels of time have made forms all across the soft, curved universe—that is to say, having chosen to claim my life, I have made for myself, out of work and love, a handsome life.

I saw the difference between doing nothing, or doing a little, and the redemptive act of true effort. Reading, then writing, then desiring to write well, shaped in me that most joyful of circumstances—a passion for work.

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

In the flickering lamplight, they wandered down the rows of soldiers. No two soldiers had the same nose, the same eyes, or the same mouth. "Oh, man. No wonder so many people had to work on this tomb," said Jack.

The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm.

The pay worked out to about $1,000 a year—some five to ten times the earnings of the average unskilled laborer—with summers off. The job was immoral, and ugly to be sure, but probably less unpleasant than it sounds.

You want a vivid description of what's going through my brain as I'm cutting through a liver and all these larvae are spilling out all over me and juice pops out of the intestines?" I kind of did, but I kept quiet. He went on: "I don't really focus on that. I try to focus on the value of the work. It takes the edge off the grotesqueness.

ask him about Fletcherizing. "You're going to spend all day just having breakfast. You will lose your job!

The pay worked out to about $1,000 a year—some five to ten times the earnings of the average unskilled laborer—with summers off.

You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and misery; I

And I call on you, spirits of the dead, and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work. Let

Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

determined to visit some remote spot of Scotland, and finish my work in solitude. I did not doubt but that the monster followed me

For too many people, the only difference between spending life in a job and spending life in a prison is that a prison would give them better health benefits.

Jeff Bezos's favourite saying is 'Start with the customer and work backwards,' but it is repeated as a mantra so frequently by his staff that you cannot help thinking they start with the boss and work forwards.

With the first steam engines, the barrier between heat and work was breached, so that coal's energy could now amplify the work of people.

This is what prosperity is: the increase in the amount of goods or services you can earn with the same amount of work.

In the 1950s it took thirty minutes work to earn the price of a McDonald's cheeseburger; today it takes three minutes.

If you can store the labour of others for future use, then you can spare yourself the time and the energy of working for your own immediate needs

So this is what poverty means. You are poor to the extent that you cannot afford to sell your time for sufficient price to buy the services you need