Quotes by Subject: Work
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Only in bed you can be slow, everywhere else you work hard and fast. | |||
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. | |||
Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. | |||
Well done is better than well said. | * | ||
Without work all life goes rotten. | * | ||
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. | |||
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of the committee. | |||
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. | |||
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. | |||
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work. | |||
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. | |||
The days you work are the best days. | |||
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. | |||
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. | |||
There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right. | |||
Fatigue is the best pillow. | |||
If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a terrible warning. | |||
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. | |||
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves. | |||
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought. | |||
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. | |||
Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. | |||
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. | |||
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. | |||
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. | |||
When they told me I was getting in on the ground floor of a new organization, I didn't know they'd build the rest of the building on my back. | |||
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. | |||
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. | |||
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. | |||
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. | |||
I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now -- and now is when you should do it. | |||
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat. | |||
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you are still a rat. | |||
I'm just happy to be here and hope I can help the ball club. I'm going to give it my best shot and the good Lord willing, everything will work out. A good friend of mine used to say this is a very simple game. You throw the ball. You catch the ball. You hit the ball. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains. (Tim Robbins as Ebby "Nuke" LaLoosh, Bull Durham, 1988) | |||
Being on a tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. | |||
Life is love and work. | |||
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. | |||
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. | |||
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. | |||
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life. | |||
99% of the game is half mental. | |||
Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on. | |||
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. | |||
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. | |||
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve. | |||
Be nice to people on your way up because you?ll need them on your way down. | |||
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing. | |||
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. | |||
No good deed goes unpunished. | |||
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. | |||
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. | |||
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. | |||
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you are doing is work or play. | |||
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. | |||
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. | |||
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. | |||
Every calling is great when greatly pursued. | |||
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. | |||
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. | |||
If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital. If you don't feel like you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don't have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you are not trying to tell enough. | |||
The classes that wash most are those that work least. | |||
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. | |||
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. | * | ||
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. | |||
I’m not just involved in tennis but committed. Do you know the difference between involvement and committment? Think of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed. | * | ||
If you stop working at a career, it goes away. When things are good, that's when you have to work harder, because otherwise it will disappear. And if you don't work toward it, you're not really appreciating what you've got. | |||
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. | |||
*indicates a past Quote of The Week
