“Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.”
Work takes up most of your waking hours, which is why it matters whether you find meaning in it. These quotes cover careers, hustle, burnout, passion, and the search for a balance between making a living and making a life.
“So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.”
“Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”
“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
“I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.”
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
“An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.”
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!”
“We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.”
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
“I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.”
“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.”
“I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.”