Conditions Quote by Albert Camus

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

— Martin Scorsese

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

— Gary Sinise

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

— Mary Daly

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a…

— Will Ferrell

Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others that a…

— John Maus

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.

— Anonymous

I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from…

— Nhat Hanh

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not…

— Geddy Lee

“From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs…

— Victor Hugo

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look…

— Alan Ball

“the pool of individuals to whom the monastic philosophy applies is limited—and that’s okay. If you’re outside this pool, its radical simplicity shouldn’t evince…

— Cal Newport

Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

— Zora Neale Hurston