From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

It feels good to have your work respected again.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Work alone is noble.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

I like to work.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.