Quotes About Work

I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in.

I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

I am not a labor hater.

I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people.

Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.

Labour is not a commodity.

Exams are not very hard. People find them hard because they don't work - it's just a matter of labour. Once you actually start doing it, it's like cracking eggs. You don't need to be smart. As everything is in life, it's about concentration.