“I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.”
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.
“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
“I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.”
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
“I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.”
“I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.”
“You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.”
“It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
“I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.”
“If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?”
“Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.”
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
“In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.”
“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.”
“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.”
“People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.”
“The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.”