Quotes About Work

Minimum wage, minimum effort

MEN AND WOMEN who did almost nothing for a large part of the year tend not to figure prominently in history books. Studies and museums naturally highlight enterprise and undervalue the art of remaining idle for months on end.

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

The call to faith and the act of salvation comes entirely from God; faith commitment is both active and passive. Our part is the surrender of the will, the open acceptance of what God has done. It is not a "work" (Eph 2:9), for it is the power of God alone that makes it possible.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

I work for a few at home who are devoted. People who are up now. Either they have some sort of bladder problem or they're extremely drunk. This is my crowd, these are the people I hope to get.

teaching isn't their primary occupation, they have little or no background in pedagogy, and they may work outside institutional classrooms.

You are good at this. Most men are not. Or at least that's what they tell themselves until they believe it. And so they can use incompetence to get out of work.

He works on instinct, Agent Travers." "Does instinct include touching evidence without gloves? And looking like Charlie Manson on crack?" "Sometimes. Perhaps. I don't think one really knows.

Within weeks of Smith's obtaining the plates in September 1827, neighbor Martin Harris "became convinced of the visions and gave [Smith] fifty Dollars to bare my expences and because of his faith and the righteous deed the Lord appeared unto him in a vision and showed unto him his marvilous work which he was about to do.

The argument is instead that it rewarded with economic and hence reproductive success a certain repertoire of skills and dispositions that were very different from those of the pre-agrarian world, such as the ability to perform simple repetitive tasks hour after hour, day after day. There is nothing natural or harmonic, for example, in having a disposition to work even when all the basic needs of survival have been achieved.

A project is the work performed by an organization one time to produce a unique outcome. By one time, we mean the work has a definite beginning and a definite end, and by unique, we mean the work result is different in one or more ways from anything the organization has produced before.

The operational work is the ongoing, repetitive set of activities that sustain the organization.

Honor lies in honest toil.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

As acrimony gets a tighter grip on democratic society, good people can either sit on the sidelines, debilitated by angst and daily distractions, or they can overcome indecision and work towards harmony.

Le travail, c'est le meilleur des médicaments.

I know that we have to start work quickly and intensively, whoever wants to be with us from the start will be welcomed. And the rest, we will win them over in the future.

El arte es en sí mismo y un gozo hacerlo. Los logros, los aplausos ayudan. Son la cereza en el pastel, no el pastel. El pastel es el trabajo diario. La alegría de poder subsistir de la actividad que nos apasiona y no estar sentados ocho horas en una oficina, llegar a casa, cenar, hablar cinco minutos con la pareja, ver televisión, dormir y despertar al día siguiente a las siete para volver a lo mismo. Con o sin éxito, crear se convierte en una adicción.

La emotividad en el arte, argüía Flaubert, es barata, de folletín. El arte debe ser frío y contenido para que sea el espectador, no el autor, quien brinde el sentimiento a la obra, y no a la inversa.