Quotes About Work

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

Only "those few, who being attached to no particular occupation themselves," said Smith, "have leisure and inclination to examine the occupations of other people.

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

I don't always drink peppermint schnapps — but when I do, I drink it at work.

There sounds the horn! Breakfast is ready. A most useful and salutary custom is that of breakfast. One may work with the hands before breakfast, but not much with the head. The machine must be wound up.

The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.

Emails we can read, say no to 'send a receipt', mark as unread, categorise, label and put in a folder whilst drinking tea and thinking about other things. It's hard work making the right noises and facial expressions in response to an in-person reminder.

One man's crappy software is another man's full time job.

Changing to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday should always be followed by a national holiday on Monday.

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get...

I craft so hard I sweat glitter.

Born to golf. Forced to work.

Good Habits are mentors, guardian angels, and servants that regulate your sleep, your work, your thought.

You do not at all understand my manner of life. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Their highest concept of right conduct, in his case, was to get a job. That was their first word and their last. It constituted their whole lexicon of ideas. Get a job! Go to work! Poor, stupid slaves, he thought, while his sister talked. Small wonder the world belonged to the strong. The slaves were obsessed by their own slavery. A job was to them a golden fetish before which they fell down and worshipped.

So the little thing grew bigger. He was healthy and normal, ate regularly, slept long hours, and yet the growing little thing was becoming an obsession. WORK PERFORMED. The phrase haunted his brain.

Man cannot be worked worse than a horse is worked, and be housed and fed as a pig is housed and fed, and at the same time have clean and wholesome ideals and aspirations.

When I work as a beast, I drink as a beast. When I live like a man, I drink like a man.

And then there were our sweet stolen moments in the midst of our work—just a word, or caress, or flash of love-light; and our moments were sweeter for being stolen. For we lived on the heights, where the air was keen and sparkling, where the toil was for humanity, and where sordidness and selfishness never entered. We loved love, and our love was never smirched by anything less than the best. And this out of all remains: I did not fail.

it. The man with the high standard of living will always do more work and better than the man with the low standard of living.

Quando quer que um homem surgisse e quisesse ir adiante, todos os que ficaram parados no tempo diziam que ele estava regredindo e devia ser morto. E a gente pobre ajudava a apedrejá-lo, pois era tola. Todos nós éramos tolos, exceto os que engordavam e não trabalhavam. Os tolos eram chamados de sábios, e os sábios eram apedrejados. Homens que trabalhavam não tinham o suficiente para comer, e homens que não trabalhavam comiam demais.