Top 1200 Construction Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any impediments that get in their way. Do anything that make them more effective or productive. Then the organization can capitalize on the fruits of their work.

From Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela to Equatorial Guinea and the Ivory Coast, China dangles lavish, low-interest loans and sophisticated weapons systems as bait. It then uses its 'weapons of mass construction,' a huge army of engineers and labourers, to build everything from roads and dams to parliament buildings and palaces.

It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.

I'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.

Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any 'new force' or what not, directing the behaviour of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.

You have one life, and it can't be just about work because you lose out on so many amazing years of your life if you just work, work, and work.

There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

Work is work for me. I can do any work in the field of acting. Be it films, television or theatre, I am willing to do anything.

I have two young children, and they both adore books. Reading together at bedtime is one of our favorite nightly rituals. 'Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site' by Sherri Duskey Rinker, 'The Giving Tree' by Shel Silverstein, and 'On The Night You Were Born' by Nancy Tillman are always on our list.

I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but if there was a howler in there, I definitely pointed it out. Just trying to bring it up to a higher level. Of course, after a couple records, people get fed up with that. That's fine.

Companies that actually survive and flourish are going to change their business model from production to aggregating the networks and the network services and solutions. If you're a construction company or an IT company or a logistics company or an information data operation, to the extent that you can find ways to help build the commons, you can get some commercial value in that.

I'm not someone that wants to control everything. I like to work with people that bring their talents to the project. So I like it when the makeup artist has a chance to do their work, when the dresser does their work, when the director does their work. They all come with stories and ideas to think about.

There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.

Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean.

Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.

I would fail if I had to work with stars. And I also can't afford to work that way. I can't afford to have special circumstances for rarified individuals. So, I work with actors who have given me a sign that they're willing to work in these more humble circumstances, in real-life locations.

Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.

The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

I don't look at my work as an avenue for generating more work. For me, my work itself is sufficient.