Quotes About Work

Laszlo Bock, the former head of human resources at Google, has investigated the optimal amount of "work from home" time.45 He found it to be one and a half days a week. With this combination, employees both have time to connect and build bonds with each other and also time on their own to do deeper, undistracted work.

If a society improves, the experience of growing up in that society should be less taxing and more comfortable; if technology advances and efficiency increases, emerging generations should rationally expect to work less. If new kids aren't soft and lazy, something has gone wrong.

The defining line from Frank Herbert's Dune argues that the mystery of life "is not a question to be answered but a reality to be experienced." My fantasy offers the opposite. Nothing would be experienced. Nothing would feel new or unknown or jarring. It's a fantasy for people who want to solve life's mysteries without having to do the work.

The biggest problem in my life,' he said, 'is my work machine is also my pornography delivery machine

One minute was enough, Tyler said, A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.

If there's any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.

Ištisos kartos užsiima darbais, kuri? neken?ia, tik tod?l, kad nusipirkt?, ko jiems iš tikr?j? nereikia.

I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Every job too miserable most times, is nothing compared to just waiting.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort.

Full-time drudge. Part-time God.

This is a terrible way to travel. I go to meetings my boss doesn't want to attend. I take notes. I'll get back to you.

There were jobs so bor­ing, you'd find ways to crip­ple your­self so you couldn't work.

Imag­ine how you'd feel if your whole life turned in­to a job you couldn't stand.

Do something only for money, and you're less likely to do it for free

Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

You melt and swell at that moment. For that moment, nothing matters. Look up at the stars and you're gone. Not your luggage. Nothing matters. Not your bad breath. The windows are dark outside and the horns are blaring around you. The headlights are flashing high and low and high in your face, and you will never have to go to work again.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.