Quotes About Work

When we understand the Four Tendencies, we can set up situations to work better for everyone.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness.

Jamie has a transition habit when he comes home from work. He gives everyone a hello kiss, then disappears for twenty minutes or so. He changes out of his suit, sends one last round of emails, glances at a magazine, and then he's ready to join the family.

A regular work schedule can help procrastinators because progress and engagement relieve their anxiety.

In The Levity Effect, Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher argue that "levity" is a highly effective tool for helping people to work better; humor helps people pay attention, eases tensions, and enhances a feeling of connection.

It's a Secret of Adulthood: Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.)

often felt frustrated because he never wanted to have long heart-to-heart discussions. In particular, I wished that he would take more interest in my work.

It takes work to be happier, but it's gratifying work.

They're perceived to be more friendly, warmer, and even more physically attractive. A study showed that students who were happy as college freshmen were earning more money in their midthirties—without any wealth advantage to start. Being happy can make a big difference in your work life.

Studies show that if you reward people for doing an activity, they often stop doing it for fun; being paid turns it into "work.

Studies show that if you reward people for doing an activity, they often stop doing it for fun; being paid turns it into "work." Parents, for example, are warned not to reward children for reading—they're teaching kids to read for a reward, not for pleasure.

Doctoring sick calves becomes my sole work. I don't even notice when or where the new ones were born. My days and nights are lived in the herd, and an intimacy blossoms as it does when one attends any gravely ill being, after talk becomes impossible or unnecessary to exchange.

There's so little to do except work that people wind up in a state of idle agitation that becomes fatalistic, as if there were nothing to be done about all this untapped energy.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Emigres: Earned their livelihood by giving guitar lessons and mixing salads.

you must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more than you are doing!

The man is nothing, the work--all.

On the Place she met Lestivoudois on his way back, for, in order not to shorten his day's labour, he preferred interrupting his work, then beginning it again, so that he rang the Angelus to suit his own convenience. Besides, the ringing over a little earlier warned the lads of catechism hour.

Fabricando fit faber, age quod agis.

He did his little daily task like a mill-horse, who goes round and round with his eyes bandaged, not knowing what work it is grinding out.

She wants to be forced to occupy herself with some manual work. If she were obliged, like so many others, to earn her living, she wouldn't have these vapours, that come to her from a lot of ideas she stuffs into her head, and from the idleness in which she lives

The reminiscences, far too numerous, on which he dwelt produced a disheartening effect on him; he went no further with the work, and his mental vacuity redoubled.

Seguramente la soledad es peligrosa para las inteligencias que trabajan demasiado. Necesitamos tener a nuestro alrededor otras personas que nos comuniquen sus pensamientos. La soledad prolongada puebla de visiones fantasmales el vacío.

Il est ce qui échappe à l'activité des hommes, à la reconsidération et à la correction de leur Å"uvre.