Quotes About Work

God doesn't treat us the way we typically treat each other. Yet if we've placed our faith in Christ and his transforming work on the cross, we should be filled with grace as we relate to our spouse—especially

O poder do acesso a pedido à informação é a chave para a próxima geração de aprendizagem. Aqueles que se preocupam com a tecnologia e o futuro do trabalho devem estar atentos a isso, bem como aos pequenos trechos de vídeo, como mecanismo de aprendizagem preferido.

sort of worked, our arrangement. Before I couldna seen the sense in it. But two of us getting meat and wood, two of us keeping a look out, it was more efficient that one bloke faffing about on his own. And it wasn't we had anything in common exactly but we was another human to talk to.

The impulse to explain is the Achilles' heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection.

In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

It was the oddest of political prejudices that wealth didn't come from work, but rather from something else, a something never really described, but always implied to be suspect.

These people were so self-destructively open, so afraid to offend those who would just as soon see them and their children dead and their entire cultures destroyed. It was a pleasing vision, Mohammed thought, but he didn't live within dreams. Instead, he worked for them. This struggle would last longer than his lifetime.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

Things were going well. Work here was hard, but there was nothing in the way of Mickey Mouse bullshit.

Mr. President, I will transmit your message within the hour. Please keep in mind, however, the time differential between Washington and Moscow—" "I know that a weekend has just begun, and that the Soviet Union is a worker's paradise, but I expect that some of your country's managers may still be at work.

As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

He checked their work, and they checked his, for caution and thoroughness was the mark of such men.

the terrible irony is that when our current job turns out to provide neither much money nor much fun, we think we can solve the problem by getting a better job. So it goes on: an endless cycle, a miserable set-up, as satirized brilliantly in the UK sitcom The Office.

We have a job. A job! Our reward after years of education! We worked hard in our youth in order to work hard again in our adulthood. A job! The summit of our lives!

there is a vast gap between the promise of the job and its reality. When we enter the ignoble world of work, we are soon shocked at the humiliations we encounter there.

The idea of the "job" as the answer to all woes, individual and social, is one of the most pernicious myths of modern society. It is promoted by politicians, parents, newspaper moralists and leaders of industry, on the left and on the right: paradise, they say, is "full employment.

One of the symptoms of the approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important & that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. Bertrand Russell

Sembra un paradosso ma per essere davvero oziosi bisogna essere efficienti

sembra un paradosso ma per esser davvero oziosi bisogna essere efficienti

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

the fat cats used to send us into the mills to make their millions, and now they send us to the shopping centres.

The difficulty is that we get ourselves caught in a double bind: we work so hard that we do not allow ourselves time to dream, and therefore we continue to work hard because we have not had the time to dream up an alternative. If you are ever sacked or made redundant, then I suggest you thank the good Lord above.

In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt.