Quotes About Work

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.

I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.

I love what I do, but it is hard to have a personal relationship when you're never home.

Beginnings are easy, but after that, happiness takes some work.

Joy comes from knowing that God is at work in your life in spite of your circumstances.

I was becoming curious about these things and one day I asked Mama Masako "What does 100,000 yen look like?" She pulled a billfold out of her obi and showed me ten 10,000-yen notes (about the same as ten $100 bills). "It sure doesn't look like much," I said. "I guess I should be working harder.

I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.

AÅŸ suferi mai mult dac? aÅŸ fi respins. Iar eu vreau s? înving întotdeauna. De aceea m? ar?t retras, dispreÅ£uitor. N?d?jduiesc într-un timp când munca m? va în?lÅ£a destul ca s? atrag privirile. SuferinÅ£ele mele - pân? atunci - nu le va cunoaÅŸte nimeni.

Timpul d-tale interior, singurul care conteaz?, îÅ£i aparÅ£ine. PoÅ£i munci visând, sau amintindu-Å£i, sau gândind. Numai munca s?vârÅŸit? întru împlinirea unei vocaÅ£ii, ÅŸi în primul rând scrisul, pentru c? procesul lui e cel mai complicat, numai aceast? munc? te confisc? definitiv. Numai actul creaÅ£iei îÅ£i cere aceast? jertf?...

Numai cineva care este cu adev?rat ocupat È™i responsabil în munca lui poate experimenta acea beatitudine È™i acel instrument de cunoaÈ™tere, pierderea timpului

Without us, the harvest would not ripen in the fields; without our millstones the corn would not turn to flour; nor the flour to bread by stirring and baking. Let us then cooperate with nature in its mineral as well as in its agricultural labours, and treasures will be opened to all. Alchemy, we shall see, takes its place in the same spiritual category: the Alchemist takes up and perfects the work of Nature, while at the same time working to 'make' himself.

The fact is that in most cases an author does not understand all the meaning of his work. Archaic symbolisms re-appear spontaneously...

Ancak simyac?lar çal???rlarken Tanr?'n?n yard?m?n? ald?klar?na inan?yorlard? ve bu yüzden onlara göre yapt?klar? iÅŸ Tanr?'n?n teÅŸvik ettiÄŸi deÄŸil ama izin verdiÄŸi bir doÄŸay? kusursuzlaÅŸt?rma etkinliÄŸiydi. Sy.187

Every eschatology returns to, continues and revalorizes the idea that the Creation, supremely the divine work, is alone capable of renewing and sanctifying human existence.

Faith is an expression of the fact that we exist so that the infinite God can dwell in us and work through us for the well-being of the whole creation.

Much of what we called depression was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

I worked because I could control it.

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work." —Dr. John Trainer

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side.

Every society has its own problems, Morrie said, lifting his eyebrows, the closest he could come to a shrug. The way to do it, I think, isn't to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture.

He wakes up the next morning and he has a fresh new world to work with, but he has something else, too. He has his yesterday.

And without the work connection, the human ties released, like magnets losing their attraction.

A deckhand, a haircutter, and a cook. Really useful out here.