W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.”
Source: The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies
“Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.”
“Work, work, work, is the main thing.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“Work, work, work. I like to keep myself busy. I start to get a little stir-crazy during downtime. That's when I turn to working out - running, hitting the gym, etc.”
“Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.”
“Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.”
“Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission”
“Work-life balance is one of the biggest misconceptions people have.”
“Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.”
Source: Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion
“Work. Don't Think. Relax.”
“Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?”
“Work. Study. Focus. Dedicate yourself to it and don't give up.”
“Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.”
“Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.”
“Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.”
“Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.”
“Work? It’s just serious play.”
“Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.”
Source: Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
“Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler.”
“Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results.”
“Workaholics are addicted to the solace they find in extreme fatigue; it’s like the high that a marathon runner might get in her last mile. I can be utterly depleted yet energized by that depletion. There’s a masochistic pride to overworking. How heavy a workload can I truly handle?”
“Workaholics can lose everything except the work.”
“Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.”
“Workaholism is a block, not a building block.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.”
“Worked hard on [our message of strengthening the middle class, working people], but it didn't come through in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.It really should have, because people are struggling. And the Democratic message and the Democratic platform would help them, but somehow it didn't come up the way it should have. But it will.”
“Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.”
“Worker ownership is only one form of democratizing ownership.”
“Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive.”
“Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I'm an advocate of further democratization of the workplace, we also need to be building larger structures.”
“Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.”
Source: World Orders, Old and New
“Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.”
“Workers are begging us to lighten their load, to remove the burdens, the hassles, and the irritants that come with video meetings.”
Source: Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships
“Workers are like lemons: When the rich have sucked out all the juice, they throw them in the garbage.”
“Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.”
“Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.”
“Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets.”
“Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.”
“Workers compensation for occupational diseases is compensating so few damaged workers that it should probably be scrapped due to its dysfunction.”
“Workers Compensation lawyers are one of the most toxic groups of people I have met in life.”
“Workers Compensation, why were you so mean to me?”
“Workers deserves fair wages.”
“Workers develop routines when they do the same job for a while. They lose their edge, falling into habits not just in what they do but in how they think. Habits turn into routines. Routines into ruts.”
“Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.”
Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays
“Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fulness, and receive of that grace which has no limit.”
“Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.”
“Workers in different countries can easily be played off against each other.”
“Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.”
“Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.”