Work Quotes - Page 13

Look, people, I’m announcing a new rule. It’s going to seem harsh. But it’s necessary.”The word “harsh” got almost everyone’s attention.“We can’t have people sitting around all day playing Wii and watching DVDs. We need people to start working in the fields. So, here’s the thing: everyone age seven or older has to put in three days per week picking fruit or veggies. Then Albert’s going to work with the whole question of freezing stuff that can be frozen, or otherwise preserving stuff.”There was dead silence. And blank stares.“What I’m saying is, tomorrow we’ll have two school buses ready to go. They hold about fifty kids each and we need to have them mostly full because we’re going to pick some melons and it’s a lot of work.”More blank stares.“Okay, let me make this simple: get your brothers and sisters and friends and anyone over age seven and be in the square tomorrow morning at eight o’clock.”“But how about—?”“Just be there,” Sam said with less firmness than he’d intended. His frustration was draining away now, replaced by weariness and depression.“Just be there,” someone mimicked in a singsong voice.Sam closed his eyes, and for a moment he almost seemed to be asleep. Then he opened them again and managed a bleak smile. “Please. Be there,” he said quietly.He walked down the three steps and out of the church, knowing in his heart that few would answer his call.

If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.

People love to say, “You gotta fake it till you make it.” But this implies that the fake you is someone better than who you inherently are, and this is simply not the truth. Let me say this loud and clear: the person you imagine yourself to be in the very best and most powerful moments of your life, is the authentic you. And in truth, I imagine you’re probably much more amazing even than that.

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.

But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes your proclivities and prejudices both?

In all human affairs there are efforts there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.

A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done.

Life will not give you what you want, it will give you what you work for.

You cannot honor God without honoring people first

But while compliant, raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace.

We only see God when we see people

The secret of success lies in the perfection of one’s gift and working frantically towards God’s given potential

Patience is one of the keys to success but I came to understand that you have to be patient while working not while waiting. After sowing, you still have to water your seed while waiting for the fruits.

You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring,…It is a different story.

If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it

Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective

The effectiveness of your life is determined by your ability to convert your time into values

The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.

It is impossible to pause, stop or delay time

The greatest energy must be use for work.

In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.

The truth is that most of us are not our best selves.

I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.

When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously.

Approach the goal you’ve set with a positive, grateful attitude, and your perception about the goal and the journey will feel less like work, and more like fun.

Be robust enough to work more than a robot!

Don’t wait for people to locate you. Rather, reach out to people and help to bring them to Christ

If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

The kinds of jobs a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old can get are not worth doing. They pay shit and suck.

The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.

Whatever your dreams may be, never dismiss them as impossible. Always hope. Always try. You just never know when things will happen.

Time is the material from which everything is made

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others

If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.

Anna thought about the men outside on the gallery. She was glad they were there; finding them smoking and talking quietly had been comforting, it was what men did in the evenings when the work was done. Of course, the work was not done, and she doubted that it ever would be. It would go on and on, even after the house was emptied of strangers, long after the wildflowers had blossomed a hundred times on their graves.

You have the capacity to do all the work you can.

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty I woke and found that life was Duty.

Ex-slaves, in large part, shared a different economic vision. They were "always on the move," searching for family, denying their labor to "dishonest or oppressive employers," and asserting their independence through their mobility. Rather than staying in place, working as much as possible for a high a wage as possible, and thus possibly accumulating a greater array of material good, a large number of freedpeople sought not to maximize income but to minimize the amount of "time spent at work on other people's behalf.

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

Serving people is more important to God than the religious activities we engage in

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.

You may have access to the best information; you may build up the most positive attitude but, to get the wisest experience, your hands and legs must work!

If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.

Regular and concentrated training makes an expert.

Do not watch your life melt away just like that for life is too precious to waste it doing nothing.

You must not allow any of your time to pass by without adding value to yourself and reproducing your life in others.

God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasure. He works in a man; He works on a man; He works through a man; He works around a man. Know that He does far more than simply work for a man. And yet, even as He Himself needs no one else, everyone else is ever in need of Him.

There is an unspoken pact that women are supposed to follow. I am supposed to act like I constantly feel guilty about being away from my kids. (I don't. I love my job.) Mothers who stay at home are supposed to pretend they are bored and wish they were doing more corporate things. (They don't. They love their job.) If we all stick to the plan there will be less blood in the streets.

It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either signifies nothing or has only a negative significance.If, on the other hand, we believe that we are living souls, God's dust and God's breath, acting our parts among other creatures all made of the same dust and breath as ourselves; and if we understand that we are free, within the obvious limits of moral human life, to do evil or good to ourselves and to the other creatures - then all our acts have a supreme significance. If it is true that we are living souls and morally free, then all of us are artists. All of us are makers, within mortal terms and limits, of our lives, of one another's lives, of things we need and use...If we think of ourselves as living souls, immortal creatures, living in the midst of a Creation that is mostly mysterious, and if we see that everything we make or do cannot help but have an everlasting significance for ourselves, for others, and for the world, then we see why some religious teachers have understood work as a form of prayer...Work connects us both to Creation and to eternity. (pg. 316, Christianity and the Survival of Creation)

Convert your time into useful assets

Whatever territory you choose to explore and then invest all your time into it, you will be amazed how easy it is to become great.

, “As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

Product must be intentional

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.