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

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

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

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

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.

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.

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

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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

There is spontaneity to my work.

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

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

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.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

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.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

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

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

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

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I will never retire unless I have to.

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

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

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

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 am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

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.

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

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

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

I like to work.

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

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

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.

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

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

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

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

I wanted to tell the story of Luong Ung, who’s a dear friend of mine.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.