Quotes from Dan Miller

Have you ever noticed that even if God allows you to have a dream, you're expected to work to make it happen?

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

In today's work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.

Meaningful work is within your grasp.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

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A job should not define who or what you are. You should be able to leave today and it not change the overall purpose or direction of your life.

A job should not define who or what you are. You should be able to leave today and it not change the overall purpose or direction of your life. Your calling is a much larger concept than what you do daily to create income. Work opportunities can come and go—the direction of your life should remain constant.

Would it be unreasonable to expect to find fulfilling, enjoyable, spiritually significant, income-producing work?

Work is not a curse of God but one of the benefits of living on this earth. Finding the work you love is not a self-serving goal; it is a required component of fulfilling your true calling.

Money is ultimately never enough compensation for investing one's time and energy. There must be a sense of purpose, meaning, and accomplishment.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something.

Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have.

Stephen Covey said we all want "to live, to love, to learn and to leave a legacy.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." — Jonathan Swift

Work should, in fact, be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of the work itself; and that man, made in God's image, should make things, as God made them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing . . . Work is the natural exercise and function of man—the creature who is made in the image of his Creator. —Dorothy L. Sayers, Why Work?

The secret to creating a career that is both nurturing to the soul and the pocketbook is, as theologian Frederick Buechner said, to find where "your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."1 There you will find a job, a career, a business, and a life worth living. We cannot talk ourselves into doing something we do not inherently enjoy, no matter how spiritual that something may appear to those around us.

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life." —Author Unknown

We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. . . . Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves."7

If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

But that raises the question: What would you call your daily activity if you actually enjoyed it? Would it cease to be "work"?

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." —Jim Rohn