Minimum wage is either a complaint or a reason to work that much harder. It has no medium.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the...

The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work...

I know how teams work. I’ve been doing this for 30 years.

The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life.

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.

When we combine very real workplace inequalities with these romantic opt-out stories, the idea that “having it all” is a laughable goal becomes enshrined as immutable truth. And when we portray opting out as a...

You work and you work and you work.

I was interning at a record label – OK, cool. I’m gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable...

If you take away my office, how will I get no work done?

Too bad the buttons on my shirt don’t operate the elevator at work. If they did, maybe I wouldn’t have taken off my pants and taken the stairs.

I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me to do it. I don’t have to think at all. It’s like I...

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

The boss is never your friend, even if you’re sleeping with him.

Never work.

If we keep listing them (impaired waters) at the rate we’re listing them, and the funding for doing the work doesn’t change, and the amount of people out there doing the work doesn’t change, we’re...

Work is tough for everyone but for Kyle Shannon, it’s just murder.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

Like Kay Boyle, whose work I’m wild about, I could have married, written a book with every baby, a baby with every book.

Google is directly infringing on our copyrights. They are copying and showing our work on their Web site. They are also placing ads on these Web sites that are infringing on our work.

Scott did a real solid job. He knows how to work hard and he was prepared. He’s not the kind of guy who sleeps all week in practice.

We’re going to work to educate the legislature and work with them to find meaningful ways to address the real issue of the soaring cost of health care. But this legislation will do nothing to...

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , for rich people may grow poor, you know, and poor people have to work…. so when...

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

We’ve got a lot to work on between now and Friday. But playing a team like this, with speed like this, will help us.

Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn’t dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid’s view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every...

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and...

You’ll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

As Edison is credited with saying, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” We all want to be successful, but most of us aren’t willing to...

There’s always things you have to work on,

I’m happy with the crew’s work and what we’ve achieved,

The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he...

When our work ethic is up a notch we ought to be rewarded but I don’t think it was up to their caliber. They worked very hard, they were very efficient and they hit everything...

I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness — they’re heartbreaking.[…] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness...

So you thought you could shit and eat at the same time. How disgustingly convenient.

When a man’s girlfriend’s parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

It is not only the weary Homo faber, who objectifies the world in the ‘doing’ mode, who must vacate his place on the logical stage; the time has also come for Homo religiosus, who turns...

What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in...

All success comes down to this . . . action

We need to work on our red zone offense and execute down there, and we need to cut down on our penalties,

Life experience is the new work experience.

I don’t want to get so big that I can’t move. I want to get faster and stronger and work on my game all summer. I’m going to go all out and get as good...

The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

We’ve got to work on situations and putting yourself in position to win this game. We’ve got to keep doing that for the next week and a half.

It’s all going through on schedule, … The big question is can they make it work post-merger.