Work Definition Quotes

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor is cast for the lead role or for any other part in the film, it is his job to do the film and not create an issue.

But just because we can't fix Obamacare doesn't mean we can't start to get rid of its worst features. On Thursday, the House will take up a bill to define 'full time' as 40 hours per week, so more people can work full time.

If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

With sociology one can do anything and call it work