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.

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

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.

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

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

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

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.

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.

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 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.

Work alone is noble.

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.

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

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

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

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

There is spontaneity to my work.

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.

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

It feels good to have your work respected again.

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

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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.

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.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

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

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

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

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

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.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

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.

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.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.