Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.

...I've stopped wanting to do any work at all. All work is bullshit. Everyone knows that. No matter how many telephones and extensions, no matter how many secretaries, no matter how many names in the rolodex. It's all bullshit.

I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.

I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,--sitting there now at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the morning.

I will keep working hard!

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person [Olivia Pope] with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically... That hasn't been easy. It's been an awesome challenge for me...because so much of how I access character is through my body.

I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

Little things affect little minds.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Make good use of bad rubbish.

Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Management must manage!

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.