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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.

I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.

Quotes by Louis C. K.

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

Quotes by Louis Dudek

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Quotes by Louis E. Boone

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Quotes by Lou Reed

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Quotes by Lou Reed

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

Quotes by Lou Reed

With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them.

Quotes by Louie Schwartzberg

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

Quotes by Louis Agassiz

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone...

Quotes by Louis Aragon

It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this...

Quotes by Lou Ferrigno

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

Quotes by Lou Gehrig

You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.

Quotes by Lou Gramm

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Quotes by Lou Gramm

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Quotes by Lou Gramm

See, winners embrace hard work.

Quotes by Lou Holtz

Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative to engage in deep structural reform to spur growth.

Quotes by Lou Jiwei

You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even...

Quotes by Lorraine Hansberry

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

Quotes by Lorraine Toussaint

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

Quotes by Lorraine Toussaint

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

Quotes by Lou Barletta

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.