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.
If you want a job, do what I did: work for other people for 50 years; but the odds of you getting swallowed up by the blasphemous godless, decadent, deadly spirit of today's show business are thousands to one.
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
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Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it;...
Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.
I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.
Knowledge and engagement are a powerful antidote to forces that often work against our kids being healthy.
Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts, mandated tests, rushed lunch periods, and a decrease in time for physical activity.
So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.
I've come to see that these politicians that release books - no way are they actually writing those books. Not when they are working fulltime, too. There's no way. That's their name on the book, but it's not their work....
My motto is I'm going to go out and work every day no matter who is here. It's a mentality that I always play with since I've been playing football.
There's a lot of things I can get better at as an individual, knowing where defenders are, having a better awareness. Those are things I can work on.
You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps...
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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.
