Quotes About Work

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

Lonely? How can you be lonely ? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely. In the meantime, stop complaining. You're nearly a man now, and a man has to work. Ever since the world began, men have been doing jobs they didn't like. Why should it be any different for you? You're the seventh son of a seventh son, and this is the job you were born to do. - Mam

God has graced you with many gifts, and you are very dear to Him, because you allow Him to use you as a partner in the work He has planned for your life.

Here, my brother got to feel as important, as baronial, as I was sure he didn't at work, where he no doubt just pissed people off.

We demand for every working man work and bread! For the people, a place to live. No democrat has the right to deny these. We want action! We demand war against the profiteers, peace with the workers! We demand a solution to the Jewish question. We Want all foreign races out of German life, We demand an end to the German parliament. We want a leader above the mob. We demand death sentences for crimes against the people! To the gallows with the profiteers and money-lenders!

The career stuff is for business people.

One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.

I mostly needed the liquor to forget those days when the job was a calling rather than a burden

There was another silence. I felt, above all, tired. Tiredness: if there was a constant symptom of the disease in our lives at this time, it was tiredness. At work we were unflagging; at home the smallest gesture of liveliness was beyond us. Mornings we awoke into a malign weariness that seemed only to have refreshed itself overnight.

even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Work is living for me. The point is whether we live in our work.

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Death is the end of the struggle to make things work, to keep them together, to show a consistency of plan and action, a directionality of will.

I don't want to work with you." I leveled a finger at him. "You give me the creeps. But if your superiors are willing to fire your ass and give me your position, I'm in. It's a done deal." Silence.

Time to make the doughnuts.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Capitalism subordinates men to machines instead of using machines to liberate men from the burden of mechanical and repetitive work.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.