Eleonora Duse Quotes

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

My job is my own only land.

More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

We need to focus on jobs.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

Work ... is redemption.

A job is a job. And I like to work.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.