Work Quotes - Page 55

Work is the major instrument for conversion

I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life

By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.

Work is created to be an instrument through which you release your potential

Every morning do not go to work, but go to actualize your desire filled dreams.

The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself as a baseball prospect, he isn't sure who he is. This is thoroughly reinforced every time one of his acquaintances identifies him by baseball or inquires about his status. How much of our identity and worth is wrapped up in our job title or the one we are aspiring to?

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.

Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination compromise and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants by compromise neither side gets what it wants by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

I work for what I want.

Finish the work, otherwise an unfinished work will finish you.

Why should anyone, in the name of caste, be considered lowly or be made to do a mean job?. If all in the country are given education, can there exist a caste for doing mean work? It is not because of lack of education that those people are constrained to do contemptible work and are considered lowly?

Everyone on earth is afraid of losing his/her life, and only a few are afraid of losing their time.

There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society.

Nothing is possible without time

We can all make impact in achieving a common goal

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil!

Invest your evaporating life and reap greatness.

To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.

It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work

This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this...

I have always believed that women hold this world together with theirlove, passion, inspiration, hard work, vision and willingness to helpothers. Yet, increased responsibility in both our personal and professionallives – to become “superwomen” – is taking a devastating toll onour health and happiness.

Our mind is supposed to be a well-planned system.

Don’t be restricted to your comfort zone alone

The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him--why, certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.

Whether you dream big or dream small, chances are your dream will come true if you believe in it and really work on it.

The products your life must have could be in the form of perfecting your gifts and talents.

Not only can you decide to be great, you also have the power to determine the height of your greatness.

You win in life when you are able to convert all your disappearing time or the disappearing life into products.

May you will have the grace to complete the task.

If you want something done ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do the more you can do.

The only Christian work is good work well done.

A value added life is a fruitful life

Follow your passion was not the message I heard growing up. Instead, I was told that the practical realities of surviving "in the real world" were far more important than any person living a "sheltered life" such as my own could imagine. I was warned that overly idealistic dreams of "finding something I loved" could in fact be a breadcrumb trail into poverty and disappointment.

And that brings me to one last point. I've got a simple message for all the dedicated and patriotic federal workers who have either worked without pay, or who have been forced off the job without pay for these last few weeks. Including most of my own staff. Thank you. Thanks for your service. Welcome back. What you do is important. It matters. You defend our country overseas, you deliver benefits to our troops who earned them when they come home, you guard our borders, you protect our civil rights, you help businesses grow and gain footholds in overseas markets. You protect the air we breathe, and the water our children drink, and you push the boundaries of science and space, and you guide hundreds of thousands of people each day through the glories of this country. Thank you. What you do is important, and don't let anybody else tell you different.

Life is a race against disappearing time

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary a batch of technical skills and equipment and perhaps a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things of their complexity fascination and unexpectedness.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

Dream big, Dream to fly.. Let your zeal speak for you! Work passionately,And smile to each blissful morning.Make your life a reason.. To reach for the sky!

Excuses will not take you far, they will take you out. The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work. It means the work will run away from you!

You will only be satisfied only when you are working

Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.

Make sure a conflict exists before working to resolve it.

You need intensity to be quick

Perseverance guarantees success.

God needs to bless the works of our hands, but you still need to do some work for God to bless it

The purpose of life is fulfilling the essence of your creation

I used to think that your calling was about doing something good in this world. Now I understand it’s about becoming someone good—and letting that goodness impact the world around you.

Once you are saved, you have to locate your own territory

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted

To work properly as A.I.... - I should have doubt... and contradictory in my code....

Hard work is the secret of being a genius.

Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.