Work Refusal Quotes

#1. There was drinking. There was animalistic growling and squawking. There was vomiting. There were flows of excrement. Thus far, this was indistinguishable from most parliaments, but it was the refusal to get down to any real work that galled Satan.

Jonathan L. Howard

#2. Penalties were established for refusal to work, for leaving a place of employment to seek higher pay, and for the offer of higher pay by employers. Proclaimed when Parliament was not sitting, the ordinance was reissued in 1351 as the Statute of Laborers.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. Thought I wanted overnight success, until I achieved it through hard work and the refusal to back down! What you earn, you keep.

A.M. Hudson

#4. What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

Eve Arnold

#5. I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

Hank Aaron

#6. People in your life leave you a rhyme,
On leaving they leave a new footprint in the Sands of Time.

Adhish Mazumder

#7. My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Would you expect a mutiny?' 'Mutiny in the sense of outright revolt and refusal of command? No. But from some of the people I expect muttering, discontent, ill-will; and nothing makes work slower or more inefficient or more unsafe than ill-will and its perpetual quarrels.

Patrick O'Brian

#9. In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Susan Sontag

#10. Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.

Andy Roddick

#11. The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Albert Camus

#12. drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat.

Alex Ferguson

#13. For me drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat. At

Alex Ferguson

#14. We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction: we assembled our work, like a fitter.

Raoul Hausmann

#15. The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into the sky like a glass and steel erection.

Andrew Shaffer

#16. Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one's life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

Walter Brueggemann

#17. The best gift we can give each other is the gift of time
those precious, special, eternal moments.

Shmuley Boteach

#18. Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Theodor Adorno