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Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.

Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.

Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

So little time and so little to do.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.

Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to labor in the cause of salvation and if we go hence we expect to continue our work until the coming of the Son of Man. The only difference is, while we are here we are subject to pain and sorrow, while they on the other side are free from affliction of every kind.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize you’ve made too much of it, to remember it doesn’t define you.

So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get your sleep and a little bit of food; and work as much as you can. There's so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors, and you'll find a way to do what you love.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?

Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.

Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for that's when the blessings flow.

Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement put them to work today.

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.