Productivity Quote by Joe Hill

“Tools, check. Sandwiches and coffee, check. Work clothes, hip boots, unbridled optimism entirely out of proportion to our experience with the task at hand…”

— Sarah Graves

“once people grew used to free money, to laboring only when the mood struck them, they began to think there was something low about…

— Philipp Meyer

“For us today, it is still difficult to imagine a future society in which paid labor is not the be-all and end-all of our…

— Rutger Bregman

“What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Every job has parts of it that are a giant pain in the ass - whether you carry a penis or a purse.”

— Denis Leary

“Um...we should have fewer pants on. This would be a great pants-free situation.”

— Delphine Dryden

“For some employers, there is no more glorious work than work done for free.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Here lies the present paradox: work has totally triumphed over all other ways of existing, at the very moment when workers have become superfluous.…

— The Invisible Committee

“Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God,…

— Philip Larkin

“I worked for one day, and left with two days in my back pocket. I couldn’t stuff them in my crotch, because my erection…

— Jarod Kintz

“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become…

— George Orwell

“Modern workers might be free to switch sweatshops or minimum-wage jobs, but that freedom is meaningless if it doesn’t change their fundamental circumstances.”

— Tim Tigner