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Work Quotes by Wendell Berry
- The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to…
- With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,…
- In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or…
- The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to…
- There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes…
- If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for…
- There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the…
- So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be…
- At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings…
- There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again…
- To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that…
- The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of…
- There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
- As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this…
- The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
- We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from.…
- [All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is…
- People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.…
- My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be…
- If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow…
- The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into…
- It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer…
- If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
- We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations,…
- The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach