Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
It’s easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don’t change, your field changes around you.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Work alone is noble.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort.
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you’d like to have it done. And I’ve always been able to surround myself with really good people.
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I’m not going to get any more work; it’s about not having enough money.
