Work & Career Quotes (14891 Quotes)

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.

This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw - the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?

Pilkington, at Mombasa, had produced individuals who were sexually mature at four and full grown at six and a half. A scientific triumph. But socially useless. Six-year-old men and women were too stupid to do even Epsilon work. And the process was an all-or-nothing one; either you failed to modify at all, or else you modified the whole way. They were still trying to find the ideal compromise between adults of twenty and adults of six. So far without success. Mr Foster sighed and shook his head.

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears -- the fluids in which one dissolved all traces of self. In working myself ragged, I felt integrated...

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

The (accident) report indicates that the investigators found reason to suspect that alcohol may have been involved. That certainly doesn't confirm that it was, but there was enough reason for them to do some follow-up work.

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

In all my years being in the league, including myself, I've never known any rookie to come in and knock your socks off. The NBA is a big step up it's the amount of work and the level of work. Hopefully, this will benefit him.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as 'women's issues' and learn that they are everyone's issues essential to survival on planet Earth.

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

make his career complete.

And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.

Without the help of community leaders and residents, we can't help Point Breeze Avenue, ... We can't get the funding. We can't make it work. We need to bring the avenue alive again.

What we found is, the faster the site works, the shorter the path, the more people purchase. When Travelocity first went live, it took the online buyer a total of 13 screens to make a booking. Now, that's been reduced to just three.

I'd had no eye on the theater at all as a profession until that moment, even though I'd been going to the theater since early childhood. But it was that magical production that made me decide to become an actor. I saw it 17 times.

But on the twenty-fifth of May, at sunset, a violent wind howled madly, Battering and rending my plants Rain poured down, Pounding the vines and flowers into the earth. It was so painful But as the work of the wind, I have to let it be ...

But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.

We have a lot of work to do to convince Japanese buyers to come back to us.

There has been a generalization that justices like to retire at the end of a term so as not to disrupt the work of the court, ... if you were to have a 4-4 court, with its proclivity for being evenly divided, you wouldn't have decisions for the cutting edge of all the questions.

Last year, everything went smooth for him, and this season, he's had to deal with some obstacles and adversity. He does possess great character, and he didn't panic. He stayed the course, and I think a lot of people who've gotten to the level he's at in track would have panicked. Once he was fairly healthy, he got back out and did the work. He's always kept his poise.

We will have to have the trained work force if the industry is going to be permanent, ... We don't want them to ship that beautiful film shot in Louisiana back to California for post-production work.

The mental stress shouldn't be underplayed. When you're out there doing the work, you can't help but feel the pressure.

I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.

This is our business. We still have time left and we just can't take it for granted. You want to play for your team, at least for yourself and your family and your teammates. I didn't let it slack last year and I think we need to stay focused and continue to work.

Apparently there are those in the Pentagon who don't appreciate the work of Fort Monmouth, which is excellent and of the highest military value. There is a sense in the Pentagon that research and development can be purchased off the shelf.

We have a really good opportunity to put a lot of guys in the draft and really say a lot about the work we've been putting in the last four or five years, playing in those big championship games, winning the conference (two) times and really setting it up

My interest in reincarnation... I explored in a number of works.

I don't think I could've scripted it any better for myself, but I've put a lot of work into shooting. I've kind of built my entire basketball career throughout my life on shooting, and the rest of it's just kind of fallen into place.

The people and government of Pakistan are faced with an extraordinary challenge and we need to make an extraordinary effort to support them, ... What is needed is an immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort to support the work of the government of Pakistan.

further the ideals that inspired Daniel's life and work.

I have never relied on my sexuality and I don't really have an image at all. If you look at film footage of me 20 years ago, I don't look much different to the way I do now. I used to say that I would never wear anything on stage that I couldn't wear out to dinner with my grandmother. It just felt more respectable. I always assumed that being a musician was a vocation and that it was something I would do throughout my life and I wanted to do it with dignity. This current pop culture is full of perversity. I've been called the Emily Dickinson of pop and the thinking man's Madonna. You sort that one out.

Not that much to pay if you want to see how a disease affects a mammal or how a drug is going to work.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

We need some guys who make it work. Sometimes you just need guys to catch the ball and move the ball and get out of the way and create spacing and things like that. I haven't seen a lot of that so far, of guys really willing to do that.

Daniel developed into one of the top power forwards in the league. We all wish him continued success with his professional hockey career.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else-felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance-is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.

He moved there in 1959. I consider that his most important work. It was a new movement in that part of the country.

The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.