Quotes About Work

What happens, if the writer is good, is usually not that the work seems derivative or trivial but just the opposite: the work actually acquires depth and resonance from the echoes and chimes it sets up with prior texts, weight from the accumulated use of certain basic patterns and tendencies.

The tipping model is a special case—a broad class of special cases—of critical-mass phenomena. Its characteristics are usually that people have very different cross-over points; that the behavior involves place of residence or work or recreation or, in general, being someplace rather than doing something; that the critical numbers relate to two or more distinct groups, and each group may be separately tipping out or tipping

It's one thing to describe someone as a voice crying in the wilderness, but that doesn't quite capture Laurence Vance and his work. Vance is a voice crying in a soundproof sarcophagus on the moon.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.

but though idle people might call it work, working people would call it play.

He read whenever he could as he walked to and from his work.

Biblioll College. Sir,—I have read your letter with interest; and, judging from your description of yourself as a working-man, I venture to think that you will have a much better chance of success in life by remaining in your own sphere and sticking to your trade than by adopting any other course. That, therefore, is what I advise you to do. Yours faithfully, T. Tetuphenay. To Mr. J. Fawley, Stone-mason.

Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow; he had good strength to work at times; but the times could not be relied on to coincide with the hours of requirement; and, having been unaccustomed to the regular toil of the day-labourer, he was not particularly persistent when they did so coincide.

Was that job offer you worked into the blessing? I never saw such tact.

I didn't think anything would come of this canvas,' Crawford said. 'Well, what the hell did you expect me to do?' 'The best you can, that's all.' Crawford rose to leave. 'Busy work's been a narcotic for me sometimes, especially after I quit the booze. For you too, I think.' Graham was angry. Crawford was right, of course.

Work—work—work Till the brain begins to swim; Work—work—work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream!

More than 80 percent have been married couple with children in which the wife did not work full time. What message did this send to the daughters of such couples? pg 182

costs of this so-called deal in time and effort? Most high-income generators, whether they are PAWs or UAWs, work more than forty hours a week. Typically, the amount of time remaining each week is allocated in ways that are congruent with their goals. All

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Everything yields to diligence.

a woman who brings a child every two years [is] more profitable than the best man of the farm.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

His yearning for new and faraway places, his desire for freedom, relief and oblivion was as he admitted to himself, an urge to flee-an urge to get away from his work, from the everyday site of a cold, rigid, and passionate servitude.

He worked, not like a man who works that he may live; but as one who is bent on doing nothing but work; having no regard for himself as a human being but only as a creator; moving about grey and unobtrusive among his fellows like an actor without his make-up, who counts for nothing as soon as he stops representing something else.

These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they live, and they therefore see in it nothing more than an indifferent framework for life, either more or less favorable to production.