Work Quotes - Page 37

The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.

To truly invest your time into doing what you were born to do, you should be running away from jobs not running to jobs.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Always reveal the nature of God to people

Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered.

I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we’re going to take this summer.” I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home every night to play with them than the weeklong summer trip to the lake where you’re stressed out the whole time anyways.

Thank God for the strength to work.

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

[W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to be available to work all the time. Scheduling is impossible.

It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

Keep working while grace abound.

OSHA's lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work.

I'd attended a selective liberal arts college, trained at respectable research institutions, and even completed a dissertation for a doctoral degree. In our shared office, I'd tell new hires I was ABD, so they wouldn't feel their own situation was so bleak. If they saw a ten-year veteran adjunct with a PhD, they might lose hope of securing a permanent job. It was the least I could do, as a good American, to remind the young we were an innocent and optimistic country where everyone was entitled to a fulfilling career. To make sure they understood that PhD stood not for "piled higher and deeper" or "Pop has dough," but in fact the degree meant "professional happiness desired," and at the altruistic colleges of democratic America only the angry or sad ones need not apply.

After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited--long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms--what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true 'calling.

It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work.

Employment leaves you distracted

Life is a totality of time

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.

There are no boring jobs, only boring men.

Most of the great men who converted their time to products although late are still making more impact in the world today than a greater percentage of people who are still alive.

I get up at seven yeah and I go to work at nine. I got no time for livin'. Yes I'm workin' all the time. It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me they call me the workin' man.

Before you reprimand or condemn people on a particular act, make sure you have worked on yourself overtime such that you can't be found guilty of such act; if not you will be a victim of your own laws and rules

What needs to be done will be done by grace.

Time spent effectively can be compensated

Even though God has given the gift of time to all men equally, it is what each man does with this equal gift of time that determines whether or not he will be great.

And what impels him to repeat this process at every single lesson, and, with the same remorseless insistence, to make his pupils copy it without the least alteration? He sticks to this traditional custom because he knows from experience that the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating. The meditative repose in which he performs them gives him that vital loosening and equability of all his powers, that collectedness and presence of mind, without which no right work can be done.

Dream thieves are those who leave their real dreams aside and struggle to pick other people's dreams to work on. They suffer to do attempt what they can't do,

It is your gifting and talents that dictates to you what to do.

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.

As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not in a good way. Once you let your idea out of the hermetically sealed vault of your brain and out into the fresh air, it will immediately start to evolve. The minute you get it down on a piece of paper, it will change.And once you let it out of the house — once someone else gets to experience it — everything is changed.You are changed. The project is changed. The audience is changed.That’s the alchemy of art.

Combine your calling with your passion to achieve great results

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns.

Anybody that does not value time does not value life.

A vagina is an uneducated woman’s diploma.

The more time you invest into your land of promise, the more productive the land becomes for you.

One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.

Our lives are a picture of what we ought to do, what we need to do, what we are planning to do and what we want to do.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

Working on yourself will reveal a new image of yourself

For you to be great, you must live a life of self-consciousness all the time.

The only people remembered in history are the ones that dedicate their lives to service and purpose

See God in everyone regardless of who or where they are

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

You must begin to live your life by doing a comparative analysis between any two events in your life and making sure you are only investing your time into that event which adds more value to your life.

Every man has been called to produce a certain number of products within the time allocated to him to live on earth and failure to hit the target would mean a wasted life.

When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

Success without a successor is a failure

You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed

You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly.

Imagine that you are stuck on a long train ride and must choose one of two books to read in order to pass the time: the first is a novel whose main character is an office worker who is essentially working to pay his monthly cable bill; the second is about someone who decides to travel in South America (and of course encounters various setbacks in the process), but who pushes beyond the boundaries of conventional American life. Which... book would you pick up to read? Indeed, which of the two characters would you rather be?

Your gifts, talents, and calling will help you to know what you must do.

Become great through the currency of time

Reconsider your life and see how you can make things work for yourself