Quotes About Meaning

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Many people know they're working, but not what they're working.

You're not going to get what you want out of life till you figure out what it wants out of you.

Effectiveness of life is not in self aggrandising