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Work Quotes

Quotes on the meaning of work.

Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.

You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer eligible to receive benefits.

Quotes by Austan Goolsbee

To the extent that the Trump administration doesn't like a strong dollar, something has got to give, and just yelling at other countries for devaluing when you're raising rates and they're cutting rates is not going to work.

Quotes by Austan Goolsbee

I'm interested to work with Lucha Underground and as champion that would put me in the mix to work with them.

Quotes by Austin Aries

I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing 'extra' work on films.

Quotes by Austin Butler

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

Quotes by Aubrey Peeples

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Quotes by Aubrey Plaza

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

Quotes by Aubrey Plaza

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

Quotes by Aubrey Plaza

Anytime I get the chance to sing or work with Michael John, it is such an incredibly fertile and incredibly creative and safe and encouraging environment - and challenging, too, because he is so collaborative!

Quotes by Audra McDonald

All you can do is do good work, and do the good work for the sake of doing the good work and your evolution as an artist. That's what's most important to me.

Quotes by Audra McDonald

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Quotes by Audre Lorde

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Quotes by Audre Lorde

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

Quotes by Audrey Meadows

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

Quotes by Audrey Tautou

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

Quotes by Audrey Tautou

I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.

Quotes by Audrey Tautou

I think that when you have that really strong desire to work with someone it's because, instinctively, you feel you have a certain kinship.

Quotes by Audrey Tautou

The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.

Quotes by August Krogh

It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on...

Quotes by August Krogh

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And...

Quotes by August Wilson

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are on the "Work" page?
These lean toward the thoughtful side of work — the idea that "intellectual work is essentially a lonely process," the belief that one's politics and "the character of his particular work are inseparable," and an image of people unwinding after work all over the world talking about life's bigger questions.
Is there a spiritual angle to any of these?
While these particular quotes are secular, if you're looking for a spiritual perspective on work, see Prayers for that theme.
Do these quotes connect work to personal identity?
Yes, one of the strongest lines here argues that your politics and "the character of his particular work are inseparable" — the idea that what you do reflects who you are. If that resonates, Growth quotes explore a similar idea of work shaping the person.
Is there anything here about effort or persistence?
These specific quotes focus more on the nature and meaning of work than on effort itself, but Effort quotes cover that ground directly.
What about setting goals through work?
For that angle, Goal quotes is the better fit — the "Work" page here is more about the character and process of working itself.

There's also a lighter side - people unwinding after work to talk through life's bigger questions over drinks. See Effort Quotes and Goal Quotes for more on getting things done.