Quotes
Quotes about Work
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to do what it sets out to do. a factory where this year's product is invariably sleazier than last year's but, nevertheless, better than next year's. Imagine a corporation whose executives are always spending vast sums of money on studies designed to discover just what it is they are supposed to do and then vaster sums for further studies on just how to do it. Imagine a plant devoted to the manufacture of factory seconds to be sold at a loss. Imagine a producer of vacuum cleaners that rarely work hiring whole platoons of engineers who will, in time, report that it is, in fact, true that the vacuum cleaners rarely really work, and who will, for a larger fee, be glad to find out why, if that's possible. If you discover some such outfit, don't invest in it. Unfortunately, we are all required to invest in public education.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.
Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate; Naked, along, undefended, I knock at the Uttermost Gate. Behind is life and its longing, Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow, Beyond is the Infinite Morning Of a day without a tomorrow.
A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proofâ that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
It's almost like we have ESPN. (on how well he and James Worthy work together)
Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
