Hidden Labor Quotes

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see.

Nobody knows the hard work that goes in the morning before I do anything.

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

Though you see nothing, he is acting.

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what she's doing on her own, we'll add to that, and it'll blow up.'