Emotional Labor Quotes & Sayings

The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives. — Max Anders

Emotional labor is the task of doing important work, even when it isn't easy. Emotional — Seth Godin

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They're wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in the face of them my reason tells me, wrong and most wrong, that to dream and live illusions gives greater delight. And after all, delight is the wage for living. Without delight living is a worthless act. To labor at living and be unpaid is worse than to be dead. He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me. I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason. Dreams must be more substantial and satisfying. Emotional delight is more filling and lasting than intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate. I envy you, I envy you — Jack London

Look at this existence. This pathetic, fallible, wonderful body," you can say rhetorically, sarcastically, or earnestly and still achieve death. Look at me falling in love with fallible bodies. Look at me performing emotional labor — Gabby Bess

The world is changing, moving beneath our feet. We are in a war, children of the Red March, though you may not see it yet, may not feel it. We are in a war against everything you can imagine and armed only with our desire to oppose it. — Mark Lawrence

Life was a revolving mystery, sometimes terrifying, sometimes maddening. But always provocative. Interesting. And although its meaning seemed beyond my grasp, it never seemed meaningless. — Christina Meldrum

It's not an effort contest, it's an art contest. As customers, we care about ourselves, about how we feel, about whether a product or service or play or interaction changed us for the better. Where it's made or how it's made or how difficult it was to make is sort of irrelevant. That's why emotional labor is so much more valuable than physical labor. Emotional labor changes the recipient, and we care about that. Soft — Seth Godin

You want to be there for emotional support, yet everything you say or do ends up irritating the mother-to-be while she is in labor. — Jim Gaffigan

The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby. — Ashley Montagu

Emotional labor is the hard work of making art, producing generosity, and exposing creativity. Working without a map involves both vision and the willingness to do something about what you see. Emotional labor is what you get paid to do, and one of the most difficult types of emotional labor is staring into the abyss of choice and picking a path. — Seth Godin

I had a lot of self-confidence. — Bowie Kuhn

It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor. — Will Graham

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about. — Seth Godin

I ask my father to read an article about male entitlement and emotional labor.
"Can you just tell me what it says?" he says. — Martha Grover

I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade. — Schoolboy Q

The prosecution rate is close to 100 percent, so as you can see, the CRA almost always wins its cases. — Dale Barrett

Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear. — Seth Godin

The sum of our relationship with God enables us to take the next step, climb the next mountain, and do the next part of our assignment. — Katy Kauffman

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping. — Augusten Burroughs

Emotional labor is what you get paid to do, and one of the most difficult types of emotional labor is staring into the abyss of choice and picking a path. Your — Seth Godin

Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotional work in relationships. And most men, even those who wholeheartedly support gender equality in the workforce, still believe that emotional work is female labor. Most men continue to uphold the sexist decree that emotions have no place in the work world and that emotional labor at home should be done by females. — Bell Hooks

Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I usually keep it to myself unless I'm collaborating with someone because explaining all the things that are going on in your head can be quite exhausting, especially in the early stages of a project. — Christian Louboutin

The future of your organization depends on motivated human beings selflessly contributing unasked-for gifts of emotional labor. — Seth Godin

Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir — Frank Herbert

Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like ... bottle rockets. — Jeff Foxworthy

Emotional labor is available to all of us,
but it is rarely exploited as a competitive
advantage. — Seth Godin

Bless up. Don't play yourself. — DJ Khaled

everything that passes unattempted is impossible." At — Stephen R. Donaldson