Quotes About Work

I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan.

Marilyn supplied sex so that she would be allowed to work, but not so that she wouldn't have to work.

Years ago I asked my friend, the great actress Ruth Gordon, to articulate in a few words the secret to her indomitable, unsinkable spirit. Her reply was a gift that became a mantra for me: "It takes courage. It takes believing in it. It takes work. It takes rising above it. It takes me liking you, and you liking me. It takes the dreaming soul of the human race that wants it to go right. Never stop dreaming. Think about it.

Multitasking, another opponent of focus, is something we do all the time—and it's actually rewiring our brains in a way that makes it difficult for us to sustain focus when needed. In fact, we can lose up to 40 percent of our productivity when we multitask.[7]

We can only attain the best possible conditions if we work to put in place the best possible conditions necessary for their attainment.

Tudo nessa vida acaba em bagatela e aquele que, para agradar aos outros se mata trabalhando por dinheiro, honras ou o que for, sem que a isso o mova sua própria paixão ou necessidade, é, com certeza, um tolo.

Human beings are much of a muchness. Most spend th greater part of their time working in order to live, and what bit of freedom they are left with makes them so anxious they strive by all available means to be rid of it.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Work will cure your grief. Serve others.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

The work so performed is both remarkable and singular. It is a great work of love.

We too must work. Nothing happens in this world until there is work. You never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. You have to put your hands to the handles of the plow and walk forward. It is easier now, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful blessing that is.

Consider these words from Lech Wa??sa: In the past, you could stand with a gun behind a man who had a pick and a spade and tell him to dig a hole two hundred meters long. But you can't put a man behind someone working creatively, behind a computer, and tell him, "Please devise something original." There is no way to do it

Lunch is for wimps.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.