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The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. — Laura Miller

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery. — Libba Bray

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. — Vaclav Havel

If you ask the question "What can I do for you?", you will always have work, you will always have friends, and your life will always have meaning. — Dick Foth

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral. — D.T. Suzuki

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. — Charles De Lint

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. — Anish Kapoor

I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning. — Phoebe Philo

A life without concrete product is a meaningless one — Sunday Adelaja

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means. — Bill Courtney

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time. — Tavi Gevinson

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. — John Ruskin

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make. — Audrey Tautou

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. — Malcolm Gladwell

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. — Homer

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. — Fernando Araujo Perdomo

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. — Leonard Bernstein

What we do in our parishes and homes contributes to what Christ is doing: preparing the Second Coming. That is the final meaning of our daily work. — Peter Kreeft

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. — Henri Matisse

Meaning is not creating a cool place to work with free food, Ping-Pong, volleyball, and dogs. Meaning is making the world a better place. — Guy Kawasaki

The translation of joy into willingness to work seems to depend to a large degree on how much meaning we can attribute to our own labor. — Dan Ariely

Work is a search for daily meaning
as well as for daily bread. — Studs Terkel

Keep on reinventing yourself! Always strive to be a better version of yourself! — Avijeet Das

A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word. — Kenneth Tynan

Nebraskans know the true meaning of life ... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall. — Jason Peter

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation. — D.H. Lawrence

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. — Peter Brook

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. — Brian Swimme

I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning. — Robert Gottlieb

God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning. — Adam Nicolson

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do. — John Lloyd

You just have to forget whatever you were taught about "meaningful work" and start noticing whatever has meaning to you. — Barbara Sher

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. — Vaclav Havel

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew. — T.A. Barron

The German word for tatting is Schiffchenarbeit meaning 'the work of the little boat — Rebecca Jones

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic? — P.D. James

If work is to make a life the purpose of the organization might need to shift to include a greater degree of meaning. — Dan Pontefract

Let others take care of the details." That, in a few words, is the meaning of delegating work and responsibility. — Meir Liraz

We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning. — Esther Perel

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work. — Brett Dennen

He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning. — Libba Bray

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me. — Jim Hodges

If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask "What can the world offer to me?" but "What can I offer to the world? — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.' — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it. — Joel Edgerton

Your voice is powerful. Your voice has meaning. If it didn't, people wouldn't work so hard to silence you.
Remember that. — Kameron Hurley

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid. — Thom Mayne

When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning. — Katelyn Beaty

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. — Stephen Hawking

If one's work environment isn't able to provide individuals with meaning, people will seek out one that does. — Marc Kielburger

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. — Sue Monk Kidd

When an employee truly understands the meaning of his work and gets recognition for his efforts he performs the best. — Abhishek Ratna

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. — Walter Gropius

I wanna work harder & let myself bear the wound. even though it hurt a lot but the meaning is I can use this to help me grow up. — Seungri

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being. — James Hillman

Work is easy when it's full of meaning and shared with others. — Jared Brock

God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18) — Sunday Adelaja

Your life would never have a meaning if you don't have a goal or purpose — Sunday Adelaja

We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are — Alan Ryan

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning. — Carol Bly

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot. — Richard Gere

Make your life a meaningful one — Sunday Adelaja

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle — Bruce Wayne Sullivan

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. — Marcel Proust

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually. — David Hockney