Quotes About Work

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Computer engineers of today are likely to find that if they have a two-week holiday they may miss a crucial new development in computing. Similarly, those wishing to keep abreast of mechanical engineering in the late nineteenth century had little choice but to keep working at the coalface where knowledge was being sledge-hammered out of the rock of ignorance.

Leisure' as a distinct non-work time, whether in the form of the holiday, weekend, or evening, was a result of the disciplined and bounded work time created by capitalist production.

Industrial capitalism not only created work, it also created 'leisure' in the modern sense of the term.

Never work with children, animals, or George Michael' became an industry mantra after that.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.

I needed a day job that required me mostly to use my mind and hands, because my heart and soul belonged to my dreams.

At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.

He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible.

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

How is it possible to remove such vast stones from so great a distance, as if Britain, also, had no stones fit for the work?

and work meant an end to my diet of lotus flowers.

A cursory review of the campaign reveals the pleasure ride of General Fitzhugh Lee by Louisa Court-House as most unseasonable. He lost the fruits of our summer's work, and lost the Southern cause. Proud Troy was laid in ashes.

Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

Unless people can find meaning and purpose in their work, they are not likely to stick around very long or put in the effort required to make a difference. These feelings are particularly important for leaders to tap into during times of high uncertainty.

When we fail to assist people responding to the gospel at church, we train our people to repeat that failure at home and at work.

All work has dignity. No job, when done freely, is ignoble.

The problem was that whenever I considered "earning a living," I thought mostly about the "earning" and nothing about the "living.

Unplanned occurrences are reminders to check your tendency to think that you're the one in control. In reality, it's someone else.... It is a vivid reminder that in ministry, no matter how hard you work, ultimately it's God's work, not yours. All this puts our work in perspective.