…in Aristotle…leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work…leisure is pursued solely for its own sake…: the pleasures of music and poetry, … conversation with friends, and …gratuitous, playful speculation. In Latin, the...

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be...

It’s awkward to wake up one day to see the trumpet working hard to lead in the shoes of the microphone. You can only lead where you can function better!

When you engage in work that you love, you are happy.

Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do.Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.

It’s really important that we have the assurance that the system is going to work before we flip the switch.

I’m not going to be a total post player. I’m not big enough. I have to work on my outside game.

The main wall that’s standing between you and success is having the courage to face your fear of failure. The foundation of success or failure can only be built with one’s thoughts and beliefs. Positive...

Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going.

But Beatrix knew very well that there were no jobs, not even the most pitiful office routine – she wasn’t even qualified for that – and that no one would allow her to sleep until...

And the question is whether or not you’re going to be able to go in there and work with other people to get things going, particularly since we have a little problem over there from...

I can do a week in a weekend. That’s not how efficient I am, that’s how little I work.

So I just got a call from the hotel, and they want me to start work tomorrow. I’m excited to have a job, but bummed out about working.

This is not his job, I thought, it’s his passion.

A man can work from sun to sun, But a woman’s work is never done.

That’s cool and that’s going to work.

I think Duke’s record is 32-3. They don’t have to work out any kinks.

we should not allow a dispute on a single issue to derail the important work we’re doing on a wide variety of issues.

We got behind the eight ball early and couldn’t work our way back.

Better to be known for something than be forgotten for nothing.

I work to maintain contact with each chapter, stay in touch with the presidents of each of the chapters [six and growing] and keep them abreast of information as well as hearing their concerns.

When you’re opening a new hotel, you want the best of the best. I knew she had had to work really hard to prove herself.

Success is anything that gives you strength to work harder.

I’ve always tried to work as hard as I could an accomplish as much as I could in whatever I am doing.

They have a big attraction — there are no strings attached, and if doesn’t work out, you go pick out another office ‘spouse,’ and no divorce is necessary.

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn’t want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I felt like we had a good game plan set up. It just didn’t work to our advantage in the third quarter. We kind of had a meltdown and that was a very pivotal series...

We fight for autonomy over so many areas of our lives – for decency and democracy and freedom, for suffrage, for the right to have some say over our lives, some control – and then...

The same teen who can’t legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]…in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup on a crowded urban expressway. By denying these [farm work] opportunities to bring...

Ideas doesn’t make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

You have to keep your wealth afloat and no one will do it for you. It’ll run through your fingers if you don’t care.

Cumpliendo con mi oficiopiedra con piedra, pluma a pluma,pasa el invierno y dejasitios abandonados,habitaciones muertas:yo trabajo y trabajo,debo substituirtantos olvidos,llenar de pan las tinieblas,fundar otra vez la esperanza.

If this doesn’t work out immediately, we’re going to see $2.3 million in additional cuts that’ll really jeopardize that quality level.

Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. “Temple” means… that a particular piece of ground is specially reserved, and marked off from the remainder of...

The assumption is that we can work through this in the next four months. If not, I’ll stay on.

It was a work ethic that we saw. And then we also saw a guy that was able to come in and contribute for us in different ways. You try to reward guys when they...

Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others’ clothes on.

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

The Judiciary Committee has been hard at work preparing for expedited hearings on this important nomination, and there is no doubt that this last-minute revelation is a hindrance to that preparation,

But if man genuinely produces man, it is precisely not through work and it’s concrete results, not even the ‘work on oneself’ so widely praised in recent times, let alone through the alternatively invoked phenomena...

You never want to embarrass the kid. But he needed to get his work in.

In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as such is slavery, and that no man can feel a personal pride in...

I never realizedtill nowhow hard the brain has to workto make the body do what it asks.Or maybe how hard the body has to workto ignorethe brain.

Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work.

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring–this is one of the harshest human miseries.

I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance…. Unless you have a lotof passion about this, you’re not going to survive. You’re going to give...

Be true to what naturally interests you – and be brave enough to turn an obsession into a profession.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.