Words matter. These are the best Working Life Quotes from famous people such as Julian Ovenden, Janet Street-Porter, Sharan Burrow, Harrison Ford, Laurence Fishburne, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.
Obviously I’ve spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.
I’ve had an enormously privileged working life.
The original ‘Star Wars’ that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.
I take so much from my life. I have my shooting and my fishing. I have my working life. I have my relationship with my children.
I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
From the employees’ standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.
Prince Philip’s principal role since 1952 has been to support the Queen. Alongside that, he has created his own working life as founder, fellow, patron, president, chairman, or member of at least 837 organizations – as well as a Colonel or Colonel-in-Chief, Field Marshal, Admiral, Air Commodore 42 times over.
In the mid-1990s, when I stopped having to run from the shows to the film developing lab and first saw digital images, I blessed technology and was convinced that my working life was changing for the better.
In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.
I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the ‘Bloodline’ set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek’s was the happiest of my working life.
I have tried to keep my eco-anxiety at bay, to box it into my working life. But every month this becomes more difficult. The rising sense of panic I feel is entirely rational; we should all be feeling it. But we can’t live with it through every hour of every day.
You don’t have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
I can’t see Jeremy Clarkson having very many serious problems in his working life in the long run.
Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
To start your working life after you’ve graduated from school and university, it takes you a long time to get started in the real world. Today, kids are not out into the workforce until 27 or 30 years of age. By the time I was 30, I had six kids and 60 trucks.
My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate – he didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
Being a woman in control of a company – even a small private company, as ours was then – was so singular and surprising in those days that I necessarily stood out. In 1963, and for the first several years of my working life, my situation was certainly unique.
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I’ve always read a lot of fiction – you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I’d try.
Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I’d spend my working life doing – if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don’t Tweet, I don’t do Facebook, I don’t blog, and that’s largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.
I brought my sons into the business to extend my working life, so I could keep my hand in the business.
The dull externals of the screenwriter’s working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.
I’m still spending my working life trying to mine people’s souls and now they’re complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit – a channel for self-actualization.
