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

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

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

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?

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I like to work.

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

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

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

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

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

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

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

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

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

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

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

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

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

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

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

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

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

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

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.

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

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.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

There is spontaneity to my work.

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

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

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

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

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

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

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 will never retire unless I have to.

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?

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

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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.

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

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.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.