Work Quotes - Page 74

We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don't let it consume you.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.

When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?

Don’t invest everything in another man’s calling

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

Joblessness is a rare privilege

There are four stages to a person’s career:In Stage 1 you are enthusiastic about your work, but inexperienced (start of your career).In Stage 2 you are both enthusiastic about your work and have gained experience (top of your career).In Stage 3 you’re tired of your work, but you are also still competent/experienced (maintenance stage).In Stage 4 you are sick of your work, and because you haven’t been motivated to keep up with your profession, you are now, once again, inexperienced relative to the state-of-the-art in your field (end of career).

It is unpardonable for you to leave this world without recording some greatness in your account.

God’s grace does not require a condition to abound. However to obtain the promises of his blessings, you have to strive for it, fight for it, work hard for it and insist upon it.

You need to find your gift, something you love doing

Do all the work you can while you still have strength.

We get distracted through employment and rarely have time to discover our true selves

Your commitment is to action alone, not to the fruits of action. That must never be: you must not be motivated by the fruits of your actions. Yet you must not become attached to inaction. Perform your duties as a warrior and cast off attachment, Arjuna, indifferent alike whether you gain or gain not. This indifference is called yoga. Action is far lower than the rule of understanding, Arjuna. Seek refuge in wisdom. They are unworthy who are moved only by gain. Lesson Two, verses 47-49

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

When you begin to serve people, God begins to serve you

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

You cannot find God without finding people

The chaos of their voices registers as a single, overwhelming force cutting off her ability to reason, and all she wants is to get as far away from people as possible.

There are two kinds of talents man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent you just touch it up once in a while.

Don’t worry, I’m not quitting. I’ve decided I’m going to stay andmake his life a living hell while I run his business into the ground.--Kim to Abe

Never envy others. Be happy and love your work.

Direct your attention to people; love, help and care for them

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life tolive without play and fairy tales! We give these things other names, to besure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidencethat they are the same things - for the child too regards play as his workand fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from apedantic division of life into different stages - as though each broughtsomething new - and a poet ought for once to present a man of twohundred: one, that is, who really does live without play and fairy tales.

It takes grace to be a great soul.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.

Losing your job gives you the ability to decide what product each unit of your passing life should produce

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and fatiguing night shifts when they are easily avoidable.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

We may be born equal but we do not prepare equally...

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.

The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.

There is enough work for everyone.

Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment

All men have been given time, but only a few men know its value.

You were not born to just go to school and work, Discover the world and enjoy your life while you're still young

It’s only when you find God that you can discover your calling

The first thing you need to know in order to properly measure your time is that you must not delay.

The ministry of Christ is based on people

Don’t worry about getting credit, do the work anyway.

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

It’s a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are measuring their lives by just one product a year.

You cannot understand God if you don’t understand people

It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself.

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work, everything else goes to waste.

Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made.

Your calling is your life assignment

Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.

It’s unthinkable, now to live as her parents had done, going to work from nine to five and enjoying the benefits of the newly-formed health and education services. What paradise it had seemed! Now, in order to pay their exorbitant mortgages, and ever more exorbitant fuel prices, British adults have to work long hours – the longest, it is said, in Europe… Everyone they know, everyone they see, is just like them, living in houses like these, reading the same papers, seeing the same films and TV programmes and plays, buying from the same shops and sending their children to the same schools; and they think it will go on for ever, either ever-mounting property prices cushioning them. But it can’t.

If you want money, you must work to earn it.

A team is more than the sum of the individuals.

A mapping of discovery should be carried out

Hard world is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

Don’t work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don’t make work your whole life.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.