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.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

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.

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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.

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.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

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

Work alone is noble.

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

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

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

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?

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

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

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.

When you say, ‚I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,‘ people always say, ‚Oh, really?‘ They think of the TV show. So I just say, ‚A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.‘

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

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

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

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Every summer’s mine.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

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

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.

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.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

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.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

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.

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

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

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

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

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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.

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.

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

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

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

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.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

My favourite poem is the one that starts ‚Thirty days hath September‘ because it actually tells you something.

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.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

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

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

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

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.

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