Work Quotes

"I often work by avoidance"

"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle"

Balthus, Artist

"I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines"

Amartya Sen, Philosopher

"Give me love and work - these two only"

William Morris, Designer

"I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A"

Ashley Olsen, Actress

"My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education"

John H. Johnson, Businessman

"Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization"

Ann Oakley, Sociologist

"My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself"

Carrie Snodgress, Actress

"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect"

Terry McMillan, Author

"And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

"In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

"Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules"

Roald Hoffmann, Scientist

"For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting"

Meat Loaf, Musician

"Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education"

Tipper Gore, Celebrity

"In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it"

Thomas Hunt Morgan, Scientist

"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects"

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Educator

"The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be"

Walter Ulbricht, Politician

"He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work"

Ed Wood, Director

"Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well"

Bonnie Tyler, Musician

"From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"The hardest work in the world is being out of work"

Whitney M. Young, Activist

"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table"

Paul Auster, Author

"Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work"

John Kluge, Businessman

"I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity"

Philip Levine, Poet

"The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work"

Wink Martindale, Entertainer

"It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work"

Mary McDonnell, Actress

"All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides"

Judith Anderson, Actress

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same"

Carlos Castaneda, Writer

"We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence"

John Fiske, Philosopher

"Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too"

Donald Judd, Artist

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