Winifred Holtby Quotes

Having done what I've done at 24 years old, I'm not the kind of person who likes to be out of work.

When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your sexuality or anything else that you have going on in your life.

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

I want to work and continue to work - that's all I've ever done.

I think it's in my blood: both of my parents are very hard workers and were always working when I was growing up. I love working and what I do.

If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.

For those of us that wake up every day and go to our jobs, we know our worth because we know the value we add to the world.

Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it.

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.