Reclined legs don’t get fed, they get limp like boiled spaghetti. Walk it out!

If you have a painting in you, paint. If you have a song to sing, sing. Don’t judge your creation. Just create it. Banish doubt and fear and step out of your own way if...

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn’t. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day’s work in his last fifty years.

The typical industry approach is [retailers] to treat vendors like the enemy… If vendors can’t make a profit then they don’t have money to invest in research and development, which in turn means that the...

I’m a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

We definitely have to get reorganized and take a look at all aspects of our game. We have to work harder on our penalty kill. This is a big weekend, and then we have North...

Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our...

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that had sprung up mysteriously overnight or the old ones that...

90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it’s just driven by our desires and not potentials.

No! I’m not ready, this is still my first cup of coffee!

One day, I’ll take a holiday and manage to do no work on it at all and just enjoy being away – however that won’t be for some time.

to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less...

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

Working good brings me closer to the man in the mirror…

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

He had to really work for it tonight. He didn’t get anything in bundles.

It may not of happened the way you thought it would, but in the long run it will work out as it should.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

He was always saying he deserved better. Better than this, anyway. I would nod and agree with him, but I never told him what I wanted to tell him, which was, hey, Deepak, when you...

A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that ‘a set of books on scientific agriculture’ would teach him to ‘farm twice as good as you do.’ To which the Southerner replied: ‘Hell, son,...

Gillian and I have a brother/sister relationship. If you work with someone daily for twelve hours, that person, if she is smart and Gillian is smart shouldn’t want to meet the other person after hours....

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

I have been with many men approaching death; and not one has ever said, ‘ ‘ ?I only regret that I didn’t spend more time at the office.

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that’s why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they’re in love because really...

Back in the days when gladiators hacked away at each other, there was always the man who decided whether the defeated should live or die. The job is usually given to the Emperor in movies,...

If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed through the four independent basic constants, we will be able to...

I didn’t want to be educated. It wasn’t the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn’t. The spirit of the age among the people I knew manifested itself as general drift and...

Work hard or don’t work hard, either way your hair will turn gray. I should let you be alone while you die, slowly.

We work to become, not to acquire.

We don’t live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and whatpeople can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they...

I’ll have to work on some breakaway moves. I think there’s going to be more two-on-ones and more breakaways. It should be fun to watch though.

We also recognize that there is work where we at United do not have an advantage. That work is performed for us by vendors in the U.S., Korea and other countries, now including China.

It’s the work that’s important, not the individual who does it.

I have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we’re going to take this summer.” I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home...

I work as a husband, but I’m also trying to get employment as a neighbor. Sugar anyone?

Lots of stores have self-checkout lanes now. That’s clever. They get us to buy their goods—and do their work too. Instead of paying cashiers to check us out, it’s like they’ve enticed us to pay...

work”.

When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that...

Do not waste time trying to change the world – just look for something that you are useful.

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

The realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases; thus in the very nature of things it lies beyond the sphere of actual material production. Just...

Work hard to play harder.

It’s just a huge amount of work.

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.