Quotes About Work

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

I'll do something, get into some kind of work where talk don't count. Maybe I'll just be a mechanic in a shop. I don't know. I guess I don't care much. I just want to work and keep quiet. That's all I've got in mind.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

we are talking about the abolition of the labor force itself under a cybernetic socialism, the radical restructuring of the economy to make "work," i.e., wage labor, no longer necessary. In our post-revolutionary society adults as well as children would be provided for — irrespective of their social contributions — in the first equal distribution of wealth in history.

two issues of the new ecology that particularly pertain to the new feminism: reproduction and its control, including the seriousness of the population explosion and new methods of fertility control, and cybernation, the future takeover by machines of increasingly complex functions, altering man's age-old relation to work and wages.

The chief and fundamental thing in the Gospel is this, that before you take Christ as your example, you recognize and accept Him as God's gift to you; so that when you see or hear Him in any of His work or suffering, you do not doubt but believe that He, Christ Himself, with such work or suffering of His, is most truly your very own, whereon you may rely as confidently as if you had done that work....

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work," he said. "I want to achieve it by not dying." But

Es gibt eine Menge phantastischer E.T.A.-Hoffmann-Figuren unter den Angestellten vorgerückteren Alters. Irgendwo sind sie steckengeblieben und erfüllen seitdem ununterbrochen banale Funktionen, die alles andere eher als unheimlich sind.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

We are all bound to work in the vineyard where God is the husbandman. We have all been given our little vineyard, but the way in which we cultivate it is of great importance for the prosperity of our neighbour's vineyard... In fact all our vineyards are a part of the Lord's great vineyard, the Holy Church, and we are all bound to work here too.

A] woman, working fulltime in the home or outside of it as well, married or single, has to put hours of labor into reproducing her own labor power, and women well know the tyranny of this task, for a pretty dress and hairdo are conditions for their getting the job, whether on the marriage market or on the wage labor market.

But the main reason why we cannot enjoy the pleasure that sexuality may provide is that for women sex is work . Giving pleasure to man is an essential part of what is expected of every woman.

Uma vez mais, muito da violência empregada é dirigida contra as mulheres, porque, na era do computador, a conquista do corpo feminino continua sendo uma precondição para a acumulação de trabalho e riqueza, tal como demonstra o investimento institucional no desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias reprodutivas que, mais do que nunca, reduzem as mulheres a meros ventres.

It seems to be a social law that the value of labor is proven and perhaps created by its refusal.

Homosexuality and heterosexuality are both working conditions ... but homsexuality is workers' control of production, not the end of work.

He had done it as if in preparation for his work as a creative writer: he had mastered the technical aspect of writing, strengthening his verbal muscle, so that when he started to use his imagination, he knew exactly how to express himself.