One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

a man like me, who does not work, who does not want to work, will always be disliked.In that house full of working people , I was the madman that, deep down, everyone wanted to...

Before work I like to relax and collect my thoughts. That’s why I carry a wicker basket. So it’s no wonder that I fell in love with Sigourney Weaver. I often ponder aliens, working girls,...

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Just pass the work I assign along to somebody else and trust to luck. We call that delegation of responsibility.

Don’t work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.

They definitely are doing the Lord’s work.

I think the gas companies need to work a little harder to come up with a better explanation for the American people.

how to avoid getting stabbed in the back at work.

Maybe they’ve said if this doesn’t work out for Norman, you get the next shot.

Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer.

Everybody in the world, must work to earn a living.

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal – the utterly mean grubby things; and when we...

It was ironic, really – you want to die because you can’t be bothered to go on living – but then you’re expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and...

You’ve just inherited rudeness. We’ve had to work at it.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you’ll do to a great extent means choosing who you’ll be.

We’re angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those reports to report on, memos to remember, e-mails to deflect or delete. They bury us like...

I’m a firm believer the harder you work, the luckier you get. Anytime you win 10 meets in a row there is some luck involved as well. A big part of it is just the...

Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the...

He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.

I don’t know what hours he likes to go, but whatever hours he comes up with, I’m willing to work for him.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

It really is something … that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn’t it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping...

We are excited to get Gary on the floor. He did the necessary work to take care of his academics and we are proud of him for that. It will take a couple games for...

[He’s] very flattered, … liked my work enough to invite me over.

Instead of communicating “I love you, so let me make life easy for you,” I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: “I love you. I believe in you. I...

You know when you’ve got a good group like that to work with no one knows what’s going to happen but it encourages me because it’s fun to go to work, fun to practice.

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.

Catholics, in their ecumenical work, must assuredly be concerned for their separated brethren, praying for them, keeping them informed about the Church, making the first approaches toward them. But their primary duty is to make...

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren’t being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of...

No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.

I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz’s Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy.

In this welcome meeting we expressed our willingness to work together on a bilateral agenda.

Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the...

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Too many questions. I’ll answer a question with a question: Do you know how it’s going to work, because I sure don’t?

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

How are you getting work done when you’re in your back yard?

This primary question of life organization is immensely important. If making money is the main goal, a person can often forget what his or her true interests are or how he or she wants to...

There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but there is everything wrong with dreaming without any intention to make the dream a reality.

He struck his temples with his fists and screamed: ‘Haven’t you ever seen a goddam DC converter? You can get them at Radio Shack for three bucks! Are you seriously trying to tell me you...

We really follow these guys. We do what they do. They work that hard and it’s almost like Coach said the other day – we’re embarrassed if we don’t work as hard as they do....

I work 10 to 12 hour days and Saturday’s and some Sunday’s.

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to...

We’ve lost all of our workers. They’re afraid to come in now, and they don’t want to work. I still think we can finish the process, probably with each of the leading candidates looking at...

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I’ll evolve into plankton.

The growth of the exploiters’ revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity, particularly any form of hand work. We have made it our...

Labour is blossoming or dancing whereThe body is not bruised to pleasure soul.

Three rules for a career: 1. Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3. Work only with people you enjoy.