Quotes About Work

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell. It is perhaps this fear of no longer being needed in a world of needless things that most clearly spells out the unnaturalness, the surreality of much that is called work today. "Since

Americans are always saying, "I'm not enjoying what I'm doing now, but I'm making money. I'm preparing to do a thing which will be more important in the future." In the meantime, make a buck. That's

She had everything in there snow white. And that means work, believe me. In the dining room she had a blue set, she had sky-blue chairs. They had a bedroom with pink and blue. I look and say, "I know what this means." It means sho' 'nough — knees.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

Sod the Office for bloody Statistics and sod the Guardian. It's indulgent Guardian-reading parents like us who've mollycoddled our kids since they were born who are responsible for all this. We've infantilized them, turned them into these delicate flowers who are too scared to go out into the world and get their hands dirty. Ben needs to find a job. Any job. That's all there is to it.

To unlock the heavy outer door and to walk into the hushed interior, with the morning light spilling from the high windows on to the waiting books, gave her such pleasure that she would have worked for nothing.

She had never been happier than as a solicitor. Whether she was working on a rental contract or a business settlement, she was building Bombay. Her sense of duty to the city was almost as strong as to her family.

I trusted you to carry out work for me, and you have abused that by feeding the widows falsehoods. You are a devil!

Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

I don't want to die as long as I can work the minute I can not, I want to go.

honest and durable work put upon it by

As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way you work. I try to soak my work in my sense of futility and fury.

I've been always clear that I wouldn't do TV soaps just for the sake of doing them. I would rather wait and work on projects which enable me to make an impact.

It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.

In films, you work for three to six months, and you're out of the character. But for a daily soap, you don't have that luxury. So the character has to be convincing. Otherwise, your mind is not in it, and you're just working for money, which is a good amount in serials. But I want both: good acting and good money.

Its really important to have cooperative co-actors when you're working and specially when you are doing a daily soap.

If we can survive being married and working on a soap together, commuting back and forth when we lived in New Jersey, and we didn't get divorced then, we're never gonna get divorced.