Quotes About Work

La novela se hace con trabajo, el cuento con inspiración.

mientras en España el emperador Carlos V promulgaba las Leyes Nuevas, en que confirmaba que los indios eran súbditos de la Corona y advertía a los encomenderos que no podían obligarlos a trabajar o darles castigo físico, que debían contratarlos por escrito y pagarles en moneda dura.

Trabajaba como un animal y las pocas veces que me sentaba a descansar, obligado por el tedio de algún domingo, sentía que estaba perdiendo momentos preciosos.

En todas las clases sociales, menos las privilegiadas por el dinero, la abnegación y el trabajo se consideran las máximas virtudes femeninas; el espíritu de sacrificio es una cuestión de honor, mientras más sufren por la familia, más orgullosas se sienten.

It's hard to make money working; and the harder the work, the worse the pay

En español, al retiro del trabajo lo llamamos «jubilación», término que deriva de «júbilo», porque se parte de la base que es la época ideal en que uno hace lo que le da la gana. Ojalá fuera así. A menudo eso no sucede cuando el cuerpo y el presupuesto no dan para hacer lo que a uno le dé la gana. Además, está comprobado que rara vez el ocio hace la felicidad.

Justice! Is it just for everyone to have the same amount? The lazy the same as those who work? The foolish the same as the intelligent? Even animals don't live like that! It's not a matter of rich and poor, it's a matter of strong and weak.

Eran tiempos difíciles. Yo tenía alrededor de veinticinco años, pero me parecía que me quedaba poca vida por delante para labrarme un futuro y tener la posición que deseaba. Trabajaba como un animal y las pocas veces que me sentaba a descansar, obligado por el tedio de algún domingo, sentía que estaba perdiendo momentos preciosos y que cada minuto de ocio era un siglo más lejos de Rosa.

Trabajo para mí, lo que gano me lo gasto como quiero. Me ha costado mucho, no crea que ha sido fácil

Ningún mal resiste el remedio del trabajo y el consuelo de la comida.

When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

I love having the laid-back, easy-going, family-priority nature of New Zealand, but I'm certainly enjoying the States in terms of the career opportunities and the enthusiasm I get to find work.

I was in Fiji for some years. From there I went over to New Zealand to work as a store manager. But I was modeling for various companies at the same time.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands.

I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.

The real minimum wage is zero.

My parents were both very frugal, and I think they're responsible for my attitude of always looking for good value, especially in my work. In a way, sports betting is like a big game of 'The Price Is Right:' just like I'd pay $3 for a Coke Zero but not $4, I'd lay three points on the Bears-Packers point spread but not four.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn't a rule about this. But there's a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

I am not very responsible economically. I have a history working on films for years and years, and by the time I was starting the next film, I was starting from zero again.

Basically, when I get home I just do emails for around three hours, which stinks. I have a thing about getting into your inbox every night before going to bed. I'm usually working from my laptop or my phone, desperately trying to get my inbox to zero before I fall asleep.

To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a sudden, it was different. And that's the honest-to-goodness truth. I wasn't very popular until that happened. I have zero pickup lines. My game, I guess you could say, is my work.

Patient zero feels great and is back to work.