Working Quotes

“I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot.”
― Marc Andreessen, The pmarca Blog Archives

“There are those who work so they can stop.
Stopping is the why of work.
There are those who stop so they can work.
Working is the why of work.”
― Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song

“16. Christians should never consult astrologers, psychics, or those who practice witchcraft (see Isaiah 47:13-14). They are usually phonies who only pretend to have extrasensory powers. But in some cases, they are working in cooperation with Satan. Rather than tamper with this evil world, the one true God wants us to bring our needs, problems, and decisions to Him. He has promised to lead us into all truth (see John 8:32).”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it.”
― Germany Kent, You Are What You Tweet: Harness the Power of Twitter to Create a Happier, Healthier Life

“Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two day break from it.”
― Robert Black

“Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people.”
― Steven Magee

“Many people know they're working, but not what they're working.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“When there is life and you are not working towards your hope, then that hope will produce no result”
― Topsy Gift

“Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As soon as [Patricia Highsmith] had stopped work, she felt purposeless and quite at a loss about what to do with herself. 'There is no real life except in working,' she wrote in her notebook, 'that is to say in the imagination.' It was in this state that she observed that only one situation would drive her to commit murder - being part of a family unit. Most likely, she thought, she would strike out in anger at a small child, felling them in one blow. But children over the age of eight, she surmised, would probably take two blows to kill. The reality of socialising with anyone, no matter how close, she said, left her feeling fatigued.”
― Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι

“The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The term "work" is getting thrown around as though everyone seems to be doing so. The question is, working for what? Every time I am at work, it means I am getting closer to my goal. Once you have the vision, you work towards it.”
― J.R. Rim

“In a job you trade your freedom and time for money.”
― Ken Poirot

“Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“You don't have to be the most educated or the most experienced to start the journey, but the most willing to out-learn and out-work everyone around you.”
― Farshad Asl

“El trabajo me parece una estupidez odiosa a la que es difícil escapar”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, El pozo

“If you build it well, a satisfaction comes
An honor to say I built that with fidelity,
Purpose, value and integrity”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“    The only one in the valley who was working was Mooney Wright.
    Harrison leaned over and kneaded his hands roughly. He was wary of Mooney. Mooney was a strong one, not subject to weakness at all. He had done only one grievous act, in Harrison's mind. He had taken Lorry and the boys from him.
    For a man to be jealous of his daughter was a damnable thing, Harrison thought, though he realized he had been jealous of Lorry for years. It was to her that he had let his heart go out, yes, back when she was a small thing.”
― John Ehle, The Land Breakers

“Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year.”
― Steven Magee

“I only have one enemy in this world and she can be very complicated.
After forty one years, I still haven't figured her out as yet, but I will -trust me- I am still working on a formula for you Algebra.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“I only have one enemy in this world and she can be very complicated.
After forty one years, I still haven't figured her out as yet, but I will -trust me- I am still working on a formula for you Algebra.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme.”
― Ken Poirot

“Avoid working in windowless environments for good health.”
― Steven Magee

“Albert had created a currency based on gold bullets and McDonald’s game pieces. He’d wanted to call the currency something else, but no one remembered what. So, ’Bertos they were, a play on “Albert,” coined by Howard, of course, who had also come up with “the FAYZ” to describe their weird little world.
Sam had thought Albert was nuts with his obsession with creating money. But the evidence was in: Albert’s system was producing just enough food for kids to survive. And a lot more kids were working. Far fewer were just hanging out. It was no longer impossible to get kids to go into the fields and do the backbreaking work of picking crops. They worked for ’Bertos and spent ’Bertos, and for now at least starvation was just a bad memory.”
― Michael Grant, Lies

“ot everyone liked Albert. Not everyone was happy that he had become the most important person around. Lots of people were jealous that Albert had a girl to clean his house and the porcelain basin where he did his business at night when he didn’t want to go outside to the only actual outhouse in Per-dido Beach. And that he could afford to send his clothes to be washed in the fresh water of the ironically named Lake Evian.
And there were definitely people who didn’t like working for Albert, having to do what he said or go hungry.
Albert traveled with a bodyguard now. The bodyguard’s name was Jamal. Jamal carried an automatic rifle over his shoulder. He had a massive hunting knife in his belt. And a club that was an oak chair leg with spikes driven through it to make a sort of mace.
Unlike everyone else Albert carried no weapon himself. Jamal was weapon enough.”
― Michael Grant, Plague

“If a person do not seek God’s face, all of his merits will be working for evil”
― Sunday Adelaja

“It has never been difficult to create few characters and to kill them and to confuse the reader or the readers, but this isn't my style of working.”
― Deyth Banger, Notes Of A Dead Man Sequel

“Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Relationships are working either for our good and success, or they are harming us”
― Sunday Adelaja