Eva Zeisel Quotes

I don't like not working.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

The most important thing is work.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.

People work hard.

I'd rather work than not.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them

He who is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the laborer

As we manage our time I think we shall never get out of employment.

I'd rather work than not work.

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.