Quotes About Work

I'm trying to fuck my kids up just enough so they'll want to get a job.

As successful people are afraid of being used, unsuccessful people are afraid of being snubbed, interesting people want to talk about something different from their jobs and boring people won't stop talking about their jobs

What possessed you? Lauren demanded of Jim the next morning. He grinned. Call it an uncontrollable impulse. I call it insanity! she burst out. You can't imagine how furious he was.He called me names! I-I think he's insane. He is, Jim agreed with complacent satisfaction. He's insane about you. Mary thinks so too. Lauren rolled her eyes. You're all insane. I have to work up there with him. How am I going to do that? Jim chuckled. Very,very cautiously, he advised.

What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself?

When women's lib hit the headlines many of these second-generation ranch women sniffed around its edges and pitched it back like a dead carp. If equality meant doing a man's work, you could have it. That brand of equality had dug their mothers an early grave and was three feet down on their own. They'd come a long way baby, and were on the road back to being real ladies -- or so it appeared.

I question this stereotype of the technologically tethered worker with no control over his time. Instead, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for both work-related and personal matters is shown to have positive, as well as negative, implications for men and women workers. The contemporary office has by my account morphed into a ubiquitous technoscape, and this has reconfigured the very nature of working time.

I begin by describing the saturation of everyday life by media technologies, for example, how people are meshing multiple devices. I then present some of my own research on the mobile phone's role in shifting the boundaries between work and home. The main use of the mobile phone turns out to be social, with much value placed on the enhanced ability to microcoordinate the timing of complex family activities. In this way, I argue, mobile phones have become a new tool for intimacy.

I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2 000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.

a new suit of overalls has among its beauties those of a blueprint: and they are a map of a working man.

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man's destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

Forme uma concepção clara do que busca conquistar, mas não deixe o que você busca realizar interferir com o ato de fazer com perfeição o que você tem de fazer agora. Seu conceito do que você quer é um guia para suas energias, e uma inspiração para levá-lo a aplicá-las ao máximo em seu trabalho presente. Viva pelo futuro agora.

Jesus, The Man and His Work Published from a Lecture by Wallace D. Wattles Cincinnati, Ohio (November 11, 1905)

They know when they face the white paper for their real work that their unconscious mind is a lost continent which may give them flashes of wit and grossness and metaphorical beauty

that the work may be defined as the poem of a confession

She knows very well that the way to find happiness in this world is not to hate your life but to somehow learn how to accept your life. Take pride in your work, whatever it is. Derive whatever pleasure you can from whatever surrounds you—the sky, the people you like, the light falling on the brick wall.

Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.

Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've had a product first. It's immoral not to get in and work and get your hands dirty.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

The military habit makes man think far too much of definite action and far too little of brooding meditation: life is not a set campaign but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

That divine rest on the seventh day of creation has made clear (a) that YHWH is not a workaholic, (b) that YHWH is not anxious about the full functioning of creation, and (c) that the well-being of creation does not depend on endless work.

requires both the outrageousness of God and the daily work of decreasing so that Jesus and God's vision of peace may increase.

I have suggested creation is a work guaranteed by the king. The king is the one charged to order and preserve creation, and thus the return to chaos implicitly announces the failure of kingship and its end.