Quotes About Work

Jobs give people a sense of independence, security and self-confidence.

I want my daughter to grow up with some kind of ambition. I want her to work and to have that independence.

I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.

Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.

I drop free music because I want people to know I'm still working. I want people to know I'm working and making my money independently. I don't want to charge for a mixtape; I'd rather charge for an album and really give something to my fans.

Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.

Je n'ai jamais quitté mon travail pour me "consacrer" à ma famille. La formule déjà me faisait horreur: dans consacrer je voyais sacrifice. Et il y avait con !

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

Identity was the first step. Purpose was the second. It had to matter that you worked for T5.

My answer to this was that the purest-bred cats made better mousers when they were fat than when they were starving; and in the same way honest craftsmen did much better work when they had plenty to live on.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event -- either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Love unto exhaustion, work unto exhaustion, and walk unto exhaustion....The only mortal danger for the spirit is to remain too long without it. The world is made of fire. —MARK HELPRIN, A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR

Le pire aspect matériel, et surtout moral, de la société néo-industrielle, ce n'est pas le travail, mais l'industrie lourde du loisir. Une dés-organisation des loisirs permettrait entre autres de sortir de l'impasse d'un développement touristique qui çà et là tourne au pandémonium. En effet, si les gens trouvaient chez eux ce qu'ils cherchent en vain toujours plus loin, une bonne partie d'entre eux ne cèderaient pas à la panique estivale.

Whereas you do man-work. Build something and it's there for hundreds of years. I cook the food, do the dishes, hang out the sheets, pay gas bills, electricity bills and it all has to be done again the next time. As Virginia Woolf says, "Nothing remains of it.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Beaucoup de gens croient que la pelleteuse et la bétonneuse ne pensent pas. ces gens se trompent: elles pensent. Elles pensent que si elles ne travaillent pas, elles ne gagneraient pas d'Argent, et qu'alors leurs esclaves ne pourraient plus acheter l'huile et l'essence sont elles ont besoin pour vivre et continuer à penser aux choses sérieuses

Penelope embarked on a campaign to lobby Giles for her return ti work, who still insisted she remain at home sit was the natural order of things going back to time immemorial: me hunter - you homemaker me breadwinner - you bread-maker me child maker - you child raiser

others were showing off the jobs they'd got, the boyfriends who'd proposed, the babies on the way, the countless nights on the lash where they'd had the best time of their lives clubbing-partying-festivalling-getting-drunk-high and being happyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappy, with complexions filtered to perfection

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

what has not changed is the sense of empowerment that grows when working people are treated not as "employees," but as "owners" who share responsibility for defining the scope and character of their jobs.

Is it really too much, in the twenty-first century, in the wealthiest country on earth, to begin creating an economy in which people actually have some power over what they do for forty hours or more a week?