Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only your living, breathing self, not a citizen of any state, not a stake in that...

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

He doesn’t need the work tonight. I’m just being smart about it.

I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do not...

L. R. H. in Clearing Procedure, 1957:”The work was free. Keep it so.”Therefore, although we have no such stature as the Great Philosophies, I charge you with this – look to source writings, not to...

Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day’s work for a day’s wage.

Forget all the reasons why it won’t work and believe the one reason why it will.

I guess I’m addicted to work and always going. To stop would be to die.

I did it by committee when I was in Tampa Bay (in the 1970s), and it doesn’t work, … It’s nice to think that it works, but it doesn’t.

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little...

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.

High-pressure work environments are taking their toll on workers’ morale. Twenty-three percent of workers say they frequently or constantly feel burnout at work. This can be detrimental to both workers, whose health and career progress...

Ah,” Gary said dreamily. ” ‘Free time.’ I’ve heard about that. Don’t fool yourself, Fire-Top. What with extra hours of lessons for punishments, and the extra work you get every day, free time is an...

Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: “Love. They must do it for love.” Farmers farm for the...

Be a Person. Not a Resumé.

I’ve experienced a private doubt, something that I’ve kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment … cross over into Ohio in order to utilize their industry and to be able...

The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.

It’s nice to be honored, to work my butt off and have it pay off.

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith...

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.

No time for happiness, no time for sorrow. Work is the best of physicians.

There are so many people that use ‘following your dreams’ as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

When two countries agree to work together, there’s no need to pin down details at the highest level. It’s different between China and the United States… because it’s difficult for these two countries to work...

File Under General Wisdom: You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner?The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.

Life is defined by the lives you touch, and not by the mistakes you’ve made.

We documented a clear difference between bird viruses and human viruses. You need much more work to demonstrate this actually contributes to virulence in nature.

(Theodore) Roosevelt considered his experience with ‘fellow ranchmen on what was then the frontier’ to be ‘the most educational asset’ of his entire life, instrumental to his success in becoming president.

I recognized my work for what it was–as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point...

Only by concealing our identities can we shed the masks we have to wear at school, at work, even at home – everywhere there is surveillance, policing, punishment – masks that are increasingly indistinguishable from...

He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi door, slung in his bag, gave a huge film-star wave, called,...

I’m not sure you could ever satisfy the critics, … They could say, ‘Well, you might get it to work, but how often does it fail?’ If you adhere to this absolutist position, you have...

Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action.

Hard-work is the cure for everything except disease

C’est bien difficile de travailler quand on n’en a pas l’habitude.

Gone are the days when success depends on how you use your muscle tissues. In this 21st century, your brain cells must work more than your muscle tissues!

That’s a true dilemma. But we don’t know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.

Her work ethic has everything to do with this, … Dreaming is the first step. Then you have to work you tail off to realize that dream. That’s what a lot of people don’t get....

It probably won’t be quite done . . . with about six months of work left to do.

Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did while you weren’t at work. Drugs were something you did sometimes when you couldn’t...

There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in...

Vacation, I go there in my mind. Especially when I’m at work, getting paid for it.

Members of the new social classes have made a contribution to socialist production forces through honest work and legal operations,

If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE

In hospitality, people vacation where you live. And so when I stay home from work it’s like a double vacation.

I’m still at work. I’m also still at work (I’m trying to remain motionless until the end of my shift).

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.