First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.
I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.
I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.
Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself.
I cook for a living; I'm not a scheduler.
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
I just think I want my work to represent me fully.
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?
I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.
Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
Working, I can be my truest self. I don't know how healthy that is.
I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It's what I do.
It's weird: I always feel like my career is about to end. Like someone is coming to get me. I don't know. I guess I need to find a better balance, but without my work, I don't think I would be alive. If I don't work, I don't live.
The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.
Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.
Yes, I go a little bit crazy when I'm not working, which is an issue for me. My background is you go to work; that's what you do.
I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
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.
I cannot imagine not working. I don't understand the word 'retirement.'
I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.
In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.
