Quotes About Work

Life isn't that complicated. I'm completely happy playing football. I'm happy to get out of the coal mines.

I put my parents through mini hell with my laziness and poor grades, so I love making them laugh when they see me on television. When I work, I'm always thinking, 'Would my mother find this funny?' The belly-laugh jokes will hit her every time.

The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

In 60 years I'm yet to meet a Chief Minister who blames others for his own inability to work.

I've worked with kids in a youth ministry in California.

I can't grumble. I've been very content with the way things have gone. I may have minor quibbles as we all have, but I'm still working at 70.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

I'm not really Type A, but A minus.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.

Having a good job is important. But being honest, living peacefully, and having a path to follow is more important.

We tend to think we can be happy only if we're number one. But if you want to be number one, you have to devote all your time and energy to your work.

Continuing to work in a spirit of love and understanding required great courage.

Right Livelihood (samyag ajiva), you have to find a way to earn your living without transgressing your ideals of love and compassion.

Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work. Without this, the day of mindfulness will be of no value at all. The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear is it is done in mindfulness.

My temple followed the Zen tradition; therefore every one of us from the highest monk to the newest member equally followed the principle of no work, no food.

We all worked, but we didn't work all day. There was time for us to study the sutras, practice writing, listen to the teachings given by our teacher, chant, and meditate. Most important was meditation. My teacher taught that meditation was the door to understanding, and the career of monks and nuns.

We can judge our success at work in many ways. Usually we judge it by how much money we make, what title we have, and how much others recognize our achievements. But if you can go to work each day as a bodhisattva, if your presence at work brings you and others joy, then you have a successful work life. You have succeeded in the present moment, the only moment that exists.

The forest, the virgin forest, the life of a woodcutter—that has always been my ideal.

Anyone can bear a catastrophe, once it has occurred, by at least seeming to avoid it through keeping busy, no matter which work routine he forces himself into.

Istinski i u stvarnosti na svijetu još samo postoje glumci koji se igraju rada, nema radnika. Sve se glumi, ništa se više zbiljski ne ?ini.

The thinking person who is idle appears as the greatest threat to those for whom idleness means simply doing nothing, who actually do nothing when they are idle.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. All their lives long, as long as their existence allows for this constantly recurring process, so Roithamer.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.