Quotes About Work

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Oh, my goodness, Lord Dryden. You should have seen your face when you said the word work. It's not counted among the deadly sins, you know.

The last thing a French person will tell a stranger is that she loves her job. It just sounds naïve. At best, if she actually does love her work, she'll tell a close friend, because liking work is a private, almost intimate sentiment in France. It's definitely not something you advertise to the world.

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

The lack of a free weekend keeps more blockbusters bestsellers from being written than you can imagine.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

I loved this-living as part of a community...Short of living on a commune, how could I import the feeling of belonging somewhere back into my own life? Quite simply, I could move back to California, where my family and oldest friends were. If I loved the city life but didn't fancy living across the country from everyone I loved, why not San Francisco? I wanted a life, and I no longer really equated life with work.

For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his atheism consists less in denying God than in shifting him to man and his political work. It is the divinizing of politics.

Businessmen warned that idleness breeds mischief and-even worse-radicalism.

According to our calculations, just to reach their 1973 standard of living, they must work 245 more hours, or 6plus extra weeks a year.'8

time has become a currency, which we "spend" instead of "pass." Many of us need to relax, to unwind, and, yes, to work less.2

the market system handed down to human beings a sentence of "life at hard labor."18

Work-and-spend has become a mutually reinforcing and powerful syndrome-a seamless web we somehow keep choosing, without even meaning to.

El lunes una parte de la familia se fue a sus respectivos empleos y ocupaciones, ya que de algo hay que morir

Mi secretaria lloraba , leyendo el decreto por el cual me dejaban cesante. Para consolarme decidì abstraer sus lágrimas, por un rato me deleité con esas diminutas fuentes cristalinas que nacían en el aire y se aplastaban en los biblioratos, el secante y el boletín oficial. La vida está llena de hermosuras así.

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

That's about it. In the months that follow you bend to the work. Because it feels like hope, like grace--- and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.

Oscar's moms had bought their house with double shifts at her two jobs. Ybón bought hers with double shifts too, but in a window in Amsterdam.)

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields. Isn't that what compulsive eating was for Mom? And round-the-clock work for Merc? And Dad's meanness, his sniping, his criticism — wasn't that just a front to cover his shame? His humiliation?

wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn't work if you push it.