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.
I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.
Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.
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My father's father died when he was a teenager, and dad went to work to support his mother and two siblings as a carpenter and as a builder's mule, hauling carts of lumber to construction sites when it was too...
My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of...
For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.
Because there are now online databases of federally funded research, and these databases are searchable by keyword, sex researchers have to be careful how they title their projects. It's become a simple matter, for those who are so inclined, to...
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
It has been an incredibly rewarding experience to work with so many dedicated SEC staff who strive every day to protect investors and ensure our markets operate with integrity.
In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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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.
