- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Basic Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.
- Prizes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Incentive prizes work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
- Almost Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother found the books rather upsetting. I figure she read just enough to know that she didn't want to go there.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020