Quotes About Work

With the generalized separation of the worker and his products, every unitary view of accomplished activity and all direct personal communication among producers are lost.

Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave. —Constantine Brancusi

Crea como un dios. Dirige como un rey. Trabaja como un esclavo.» Constantin Brancusi

Meaning is not creating a cool place to work with free food, Ping-Pong, volleyball, and dogs. Meaning is making the world a better place.

Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated form what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.

We know only two roads One which leads to the factory And the other, Which leads to the Crematorium

If you're working, it's the best therapy for posttraumatic stress," Juan says. Studies have shown that the gravity of posttraumatic stress is directly proportional to the length of time one lives with the threat of death, and Juan slowly unwinds the trauma of the sixty-nine days he lived inside a thundering mountain by going to work, fixing machines, then going back home, and then returning to work again.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

If the work of the average man required half the mental agility and readiness of resource of the work of the average prostitute, the average man would be constantly on the verge of starvation.

Wherefore do ye toil; is it not that ye may live and be happy? And if ye toil only that ye may toil more, when shall happiness find you?

It is not unusual for the central menace of a work of horror fiction to be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society.

Perché lavorate? Non potreste limitarvi a vivere ed essere contenti? E se vi affaticate solo per potervi affaticare di più, quando troverete la felicità? Voi dite di lavorare per vivere, ma la vita non è fatta di bellezza e canzoni? E se non sopportate fra di voi un cantore, dove vanno i frutti di tanto lavoro? Lavorare senza divertirsi è come fare un viaggio interminabile senza meta. Non sarebbe meglio morire?

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

Thinking is difficult, but it stands as our essential work. Make no mistake about the difficulty of the task. It is often slow, discouraging, overwhelming. But when God calls us to preach, he calls us to love him with our minds. God deserves that kind of love and so do the people to whom we minister.

Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.

why do we need to make the rich richer to make them work harder but make the poor poorer for the same purpose?

Áður fyrr voru engin verk kölluð sóðaleg nema þau sem unnin voru án vandvirkni af kæringarlausum verkamanni og lýstu handbragði skussa og ómennis.

instinctive perception of the fact that while immense toil lies behind the artist's skill, the soul of the creation came from beyond the world of work and the making of it was a bit of play. The man of creative spirit is often a tireless worker, but in his happiest hours he is at play; for all work, when it rises into freedom and power, is play.

The rewards of great living are not external things, withheld until the crowning hour of success arrives; they come by the way, — in the consciousness of growing power and worth, of duties nobly met, and work thoroughly done. To the true artist, working always in humility and sincerity, all life is a reward, and every day brings a deeper satisfaction. Joy and peace are by the way.

Artists were allowed, indeed encouraged, to lead more libidinous lives on behalf of others who had, of necessity, to leave their jouissance at the door while they worked.

In our offices and places of work we love to tell others what to do.We denigrate them.We compare their work unfavourably with our own.We are always in competition.We show off and gossip.Our dream is of being well treated and we dream of treating others badly...

Tools and instruments which can ease the effort of labor considerably are themselves not a product of labor but of work; they do not belong in the process of consumption but are part and parcel of the world of use objects.

L'homme gagne sa liberté non pas en travaillant, mais davantage en créant, et surtout en se confrontant à la pluralité, en ayant le courage de dire ce qu'il pense quelles que soient ses chances d'être véritablement entendu, comme le veut la fragilité des affaires humaines.