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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.

The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.

Quotes by Peter Segal

One of the things we try to do on 'The Fosters' is shine a light on the problems and the people that get pushed to the periphery. From the very beginning of the show, when we told people we were...

Quotes by Peter Paige

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

Quotes by Peter Porter

I kind of love my work. I really love the pieces I do.

Quotes by Peter Max

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

Quotes by Peter Max

I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.

Quotes by Peter Maxwell Davies

If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure...

Quotes by Peter Mayer

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Quotes by Peter Mayle

I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.

Quotes by Peter Mayle

Work changes over time, as you change and the world changes.

Quotes by Peter Milligan

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

Quotes by Peter Morgan

The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers?

Quotes by Peter Morgan

In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.

Quotes by Peter Mullan

I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations - that was the whole point of the Brillo Boxes and Campbell's Soup Cans. And believe it or not,...

Quotes by Peter Marino

I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.

Quotes by Peter Marino

I work 12 hours a day, seven days a week - and I love it. I'm creative. I feel fulfilled. I'm from a solidly lower-middle-class background; I'm not from the world that I'm in now. So I appreciate it a...

Quotes by Peter Marino

Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.

Quotes by Peter Marino

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Quotes by Peter Marshall

Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.

Quotes by Peter Maurer

We need to continue to modernise current humanitarian work while at the same time drive a more systemic shift in how we envision the operation and financing of humanitarian solutions.

Quotes by Peter Maurer

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.