Work and Profession

GOLF IS A DAY SPENT IN A ROUND OF STRENUOUS IDLENESS.

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

HOW LITTLE OUR CAREERS EXPRESS WHAT LIES IN US, AND YET HOW MUCH TIME THEY TAKE UP. IT’S SAD, REALLY.

ANY DAMN FOOL CAN BEG UP SOME KIND OF JOB; IT TAKES A WISE MAN TO MAKE IT WITHOUT WORKING.

A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

THERE ARE TWO MEN INSIDE THE ARTIST, THE POET AND THE CRAFTSMAN. ONE IS BORN A POET. ONE BECOMES A CRAFTSMAN.

EASY READING IS DAMN HARD WRITING.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Nobody works as hard for their money as the person who marries it.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

The only way to enjoy life is to work. Work is much more fun than fun.

Working for Warner Bros is like fucking a porcupine - it's a hundred pricks against one.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have do something else.

I wish my son would learn a trade. At least we'd know what kind of work he's out of.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

In the days when I went to work, I never once knew what I was doing. These days, I never work. Work does age one so.

I am glad to hear you smoke. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.