Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.

There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

Guys do dives because they don't know how to work. Guys do flips because they don't know how to work.

When I was working, there was no digital. We actually worked; we used Polaroids.

It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

You were difficult enough to catch,” Faste said. Salander gave him a long look, satisfied herself that he was an idiot, and decided that she would not waste too many seconds concerning herself with his existence.

Some people serve with pride - because they 'want to' do and be their best; other people serve with disdain because they 'have to' do their job. Which person do you think will end up running the show?

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

There are two schools of thought. A manager would tell you that must make them realize you're a dedicated actor and I took a totally different route than that. I never ever took myself seriously.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.

And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.

He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron)