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Quotes About Work

You clock in to the clock. You clock out to the clock. You come home to the clock. You eat to the clock, you drink to the clock, you go to bed to the clock . . . You do that for forty years of your life, you retire, what do they fucking give you? A clock!
~ Simon Garfield
If you work for a soccer club, your goal is generally to keep working there, not to be shown up by some overeducated young thing who has actually learned something about business. In part this is because much of the traditionally working-class soccer industry distrusted education.
~ Simon Kuper
The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.
~ Simon Mainwaring
I know you don't like to admit it, Happy, but it's all science, all of the time. Ghosts, demons, the afterworlds- all of existence and everything beyond- it's all science. We don't always understand it yet, that's all. Now hush like a good bunny and let me get on with my work, or I'll start throwing words like -quantum- around, and you know how you hate that.
~ Simon R. Green
There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.
~ Simon R. Green
You cannot murder interns, but other than that, they are the same as mules. You can rob them, abuse them, debase them. There are no limits. When a man agrees to be intern, he is saying, "I am no longer human being with rights, I am like dog or monkey. Use me for labor until my body breaks and then consume all of my meats." I
~ Simon Rich
Although I have scheduled over one million meetings, I have never had the privilege of attending one. The reason is that no colleague has ever requested my company. Sometimes I like to watch meetings from a distance and imagine that I am a participant, drinking water, nodding my head, and saying words. My hope is that if I continue to work on my social skills, this dream of mine will someday come to pass.
~ Simon Rich
Indeed, a parallel history of Europe could be written which viewed family life and regular work as the essential Continental motor of civilization. Then war and revolution would need to be seen by historians as startling, sick departures from that norm of a kind that require serious explanation, rather than viewing periods of gentle introversy as mere tiresome interludes before the next thrill-packed bloodbath.
~ Simon Winder
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Service is not easy but necessary
~ sindiswa matyobeni
Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.
~ Siobhan Davies
Life doesn't give us what we want, but our hard work does.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee!
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.
~ M. Scott Peck
If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.
~ Linda Perhacs
I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.
~ Marion Cotillard
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love
~ Orlando Bloom
Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.
~ Richard Armitage
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
~ Garson Kanin
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
~ Kim Cattrall
I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.
~ Teri Hatcher