work quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

I will never retire unless I have to.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

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.

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

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

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

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

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

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

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

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

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.‘

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I only want my work to make people happy.

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.

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

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

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