Quotes About Work

For minutes on end he could not tell whether he was really hearing howls of pain, or whether it was simply that his years of long, exhausting work had rendered him incapable of distinguishing between the general noise and ancient prehistoric screams that were somehow preserved in time and now were being raised by the rain, like dust.

When everybody is employed and working cheerfully, you can't help but have prosperity.

And speaking of fight action, there is one place where Old Man Suspense can be made to work like an Elkton marrying parson.

Messenger boys zipped by on delivery bikes

Apart from work, he didn't need an outside stimulus, except that curious one of picking a quarrel. It was in hostility that his being fulfilled itself. As a soldier should be, he was sudden and fierce in quarrel.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

There is no business in this world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

Kostia: When I'm mowing, I don't ask myself why I'm here. Theodore: You're here to be Master, Konstantin Dmitrievich. As it's always been, by the grace of God

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

It's this way. When a fellow gets out on the creeks, he's so busy and has so much to be thinking about all the time that he doesn't have much chance to worry about women, especially with all the hard physical labor involved,' an old-timer told Marshall. 'It's only when a man's mind hasn't got anything to occupy it and his body's got nothing to get it tired that he can't get along without any women.

Jehová, el dios barbado y huraño, dio a sus adoradores el supremo ejemplo de la pereza ideal; después de seis días de trabajo, descansó por toda la eternidad

I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

I've been under contract since I was 18 and it's all I've ever known. To me, I'm NOT different from anyone else other than the way I make a living.

You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.

He was inside that realm of mind, the private universe, the infinite sphere of himself where he went to work magic.

Stock traders Guys, you may go to sleep till the last one of trade session in the stock market as nothing major up down seems possible today. Do some important work of yours rather wasting time before web trading computer screen

A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very--it's like being a shoemaker. You know, shoemakers stick to your last and you stay there working over your last, and it's pretty drudgy in a lot of ways.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Something for nothing is worth nothing...