#quotes about work

[theresnosafeharbor4myships]

To help gauge what you're up against, look at the way management models various behaviors around time off, sick time, after-hours emails, and integrity. If the exec team is still Slacking and emailing from their Mexican villas or while out sick with the flu, it's going to be much harder for you to set a boundary around your time off. That kind of culture comes from the top down, and even though your company might say it values employees' work/life balance, the actions of those in charge speak louder than their words. -from The Book of Boundaries, by Melissa Urban

[lycanhood]

"All jobs are fucked up. You do things that you don't necessarily choose to do in exchange for relevance and money and you cannot let it kill you."

-Alex Levy (The Morning Show 1x4 "That Woman")

[gotham-ruaidh]

Inspiration, as far as I'm concerned, is highly overrated. Put in the time.

Gene Simmons

[a-marieslife]

[a-marieslife]

Get your money & go!

[bluecorners]

I see no particular merit in the fact that I was an artist at the age of eleven. I was born with an ability, with music in me, that is all. No special credit was due me. The only credit we can claim is for the use we make of the talent we are given. That is why I urge young musicians: “Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters. You must cherish this gift. Do not demean or waste what you have been given. Work — work constantly and nourish it.” Of course the gift to be cherished most of all is that of life itself. One’s work should be a salute to life.

- Pablo Casals (from The Marginalian)

[theresnosafeharbor4myships]

"No surprise. Idiots make it into every company. They tend to interview well." - from "Lessons in Chemistry," by Bonnie Garmus

[quote-assassin]

Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.

-Voltaire: Candide