Quotes About Work

The rest of us would have liked some time off. They only gave us that Friday afternoon, which we took gladly, but we, too, suffered from stress and all sorts of disorders and would have liked more than an afternoon.

From time to time he consulted books about Islamic jurisprudence, the fikh, in his own collection when confronted with thorny problems in his marriage and his work. But religion did not play a major role in his life. What drove him most was a belief in the power of the written word—the rich variety of human experience and ideas contained between the covers of a book.

because of them, he worked all the harder in his thirties and forties to "make himself," emotionally as well as materially, and go on to do the special work he longed for. Perseverance and forbearance became core aspects of Lincoln's character, and he would one day give the same advice his law partner Stephen Logan gave him, that what matters is whether a person "keeps up his labors and efforts until middle life.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

That guy had a job before you environmentalists took it away. Now he has nothing to do but ride his bike, his only treasure, then go home at night to terrorize his children and beat his wife. Spousal abuse is directly linked to environmental regulation. It can be stamped out only by stamping out nature—not human nature, the other one. That alone will provide jobs and stop the breakdown of the American family.

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him--they were part of his "road," the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.

El suelo pobre produce al hombre rico, porque la pobreza del suelo estimula el trabajo del hombre al que más tarde debe este su riqueza.

Trabajar es crear, producir, multiplicarse en las obras de su hechura: nada puede haber más plácido y lisonjero para

El trabajo me parece una estupidez odiosa a la que es difícil escapar

Trabajaba mucho, eso sí, pero la vida es trabajo, ¿no? El que nace pobre tiene que trabajar, ¡a ver si no!

Y Jon sonríe, porque eso es, al fin y al cabo, lo más importante en la vida. El noventa por ciento del trabajo es estar junto a quien tienes que estar. El otro diez por ciento, se improvisa sobre la marcha.

se acababa el trabajo en Cómo Yukong movió las montañas

La ayuda a los pobres no consiste en exaltar la pobreza como un mérito sino en combatirla, y esto solo se consigue con posibilidades de trabajo, educación, vivienda, salud, control de la natalidad, integración plena a la sociedad.

When a fool does evil work, he forgets that he is lighting a fire wherein he must burn one day.

That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea--both of us calm--and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life Work....when death--black waves!--no longer courts me and I can smile, constantly, at everything because, my bones, there will be so little of myself left to give it.

La mano es el instrumento de nuestras obras, el signo de nuestra nobleza, el medio por donde la inteligencia reviste de forma sus pensamientos artísticos, y da ser a las creaciones de la voluntad, y ejerce el imperio que Dios concedió al hombre sobre todas las criaturas.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

Four completely sober men on the set of Pineapple Express.

Ben is twenty-six, and this is his first job. He is small, weedy, and terribly, terribly serious about his work. His. Not anyone else's. He despises everyone else's. He has, however, produced our only literary fiction in the last two years that has sold over five thousand copies, so people listen to him. Which is a pity, since he doesn't really have anything to say.

Americans used to pity and be amused at countries where the citizens all wore drab work clothes and the leaders were belligerently under-dressed for state occasions; now those people have discovered fashion, and we wear drab work clothes and are suspicious of formality.