Quotes About Work

Industrial capitalism was not simply changing the nature of black work life, it altered the communal practices that were so central to survival in the agrarian south. And it fundamentally altered black people's relationship to the body.

Clearly, much of the violence in domestic life, both physical and verbal abuse, is linked to job misery. We can encourage friends and loved ones to move toward greater self-love by supporting them in any effort to leave work that assaults their well-being.

Quando temos de fazer um trabalho que odiamos, por exemplo, isso ataca a nossa autoestima e autoconfiança. O trabalho, quando percebido como um fardo, por se realizar em empregos ruins em vez de aprimorar a autoestima, deprime o espírito

Work is the curse of the drinking man

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

Influence could get me inside the door, but my productivity and the quality of my work were the real tests.

It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.

guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Between federal, state, local, sales, and real estate taxes, more than half of my income goes to pay taxes. Since that is the case, you might say that I work for the government. This is certainly not the kind of situation that was envisioned by the founding fathers.

the hard-working, honest rich are the primary providers of jobs that allow us to have a middle class in this country.

It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.

Smohalla, a Wanapum prophet from the Pacific Northwest, exhorted his followers to abandon all the ways of the white man and not to plough or harvest or work in any way, "because men who work cannot dream.")

We shall dismiss these with the observation that their work does not concern "investors" as the term is used in this book.

When men do evil and claim that they are doing God's work, then they are at their most dangerous.

Mas o que é que você faria com o Graal? — Eu iria usá-lo. — Para quê? — Para livrar o mundo do pecado. — Seria um trabalho notável, mas nem Cristo conseguiu realizá-lo. — Você pára de eliminar ervas daninhas entre os vinhedos só porque elas sempre voltam a nascer?

But what have either of them ever done except learn Latin? Have they ever planted a field of wheat? Set up a factory? Dug a canal? They were born, Sharpe, that's all that ever happened to them, they were born.

Does that girl work here?' Robbie asked, gesturing at the screen behind which Mary had disappeared. 'All her life,' Sir Giles said. 'You remember Mary, Thomas?' 'I tried to drown her when we were both children,' Thomas said.

Taxes, as I was to learn, were the best source of wealth for men who did not want to work

Maar de zeep heeft de geuren alleen bedekt, en na een poosje zijn ze er weer, zwak, versmolten tot een enkele geur van de dag en het werk, de geur van het einde van de dag en het werk, de geur van de avond, van de thuiskomst en het thuiszijn. (172)

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.