Quotes by work

“One day employers will need to incentivize employees to actually work in an office. The office, in many ways, is obsolete. The office is more and more becoming a place for wasteful meetings and the work is actually being done at home. A Results-OnlyEnvironment (ROWE) is the path of future location-independent businesses.”

“I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth, That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.”

“The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.”

“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death”

“…I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday – the longer, the better – from the great boarding-school, where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest. As to going a visiting, where can we not go, if we will; where have we not been, when we would; starting our fancy away from our Christmas Tree!”

“Manage the inn, Jane, save it. Have a mission in life. Discover that work worth doing is about more than profit and toil. It s about using the gifts and ability you ve been given to serve your fellow man and please your Maker.”

“It’s unthinkable, now to live as her parents had done, going to work from nine to five and enjoying the benefits of the newly-formed health and education services. What paradise it had seemed! Now, in order to pay their exorbitant mortgages, and ever more exorbitant fuel prices, British adults have to work long hours – the longest, it is said, in Europe… Everyone they know, everyone they see, is just like them, living in houses like these, reading the same papers, seeing the same films and TV programmes and plays, buying from the same shops and sending their children to the same schools; and they think it will go on for ever, either ever-mounting property prices cushioning them. But it can’t.”

“The more goods we acquire in the temporal realm, the more intense our external work, the less accessible and farther removed is eternity. Hence the limited perspective of active and energetic people, the banality of their thought and actions.”

“Any man s a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.”

“Hard world is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“To work properly as A.I…. – I should have doubt… and contradictory in my code….”

“Patience is one of the keys to success but I came to understand that you have to be patient while working not while waiting. After sowing, you still have to water your seed while waiting for the fruits.”