Quotes About Work

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from. Work is how you settle your financial and emotional debts—so that your travels are not an escape from your real life, but a discovery of your real life.

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suddenly, you're going to have to lead it a different way, and what you're really going to have to do is develop people. The advice I'd give to anyone young is it's really about developing people who are going to do the work.

Uno es recalcar que realizarás ochenta mil horas de trabajo a lo largo de tu vida.

Like Chuck Close says, 'Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will—through work—bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great 'art idea.

No me preocupará perder un amigo si tengo cien, pero si tengo dos amigos sí me preocuparé. No me preocupará perder mi trabajo si mi jefe número uno me despide porque tengo miles de jefes en periódicos de todas partes.

As Billy points out, if your last three turns are precise, then what you're internalizing on the lift ride up is precision. So I carry this on to the guys who I train in the finance world, for example: ending the work day with very high quality, which for one thing means you're internalizing quality overnight.

Si hicieras eso mismo con tu vida profesional, tendrías que dedicar cuatro mil horas, o dos años de trabajo.

Love of bustle is not industry. —SENECA

Lazy: A Manifesto

banging on a keyboard, and coming home to a drunken existence on the weekends?

In any field, there's usually some kind of mythological reward you're supposed to receive if everybody considers you a success. But in my experience, there's a lot more honest joy to be had from taking pleasure in the work itself.

Most people exist between the on and off switch. They are unable to turn on and put out high power, and they are unable to turn off completely and enjoy true rest.

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I don't like work," says Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself." Marlow

como si eso fuera una especie de medalla de honor que simboliza ética laboral,

It's like the artwork of Andy Goldsworthy, or anyone who delights in anything ephemeral. The charm in a bottle of wine, the craft, all the work that goes into it . . . actually delighting in the fact that it's perishable and goes away I find really helpful. I've gotten a lot of miles out of a beautiful bottle of wine, not just for the taste and the buzz, but the symbolism of delighting in something that goes away.

Levántate al menos una hora antes de tener que sentarte ante la pantalla del ordenador. El correo electrónico aniquila la mente.

De este modo, acabamos pasando (tal como lo expresó Thoreau) «la mejor parte de la vida ganando dinero para disfrutar de una libertad discutible en la parte menos valiosa de ella».

For me, it's not how much time you spend doing what you love. It's how little time you spend doing what you hate.

ganando dinero para disfrutar de una libertad discutible en la parte menos valiosa de ella».

Is that a dream, or a goal? Because a dream is something you fantasize about that will probably never happen. A goal is something you set a plan for, work toward, and achieve. I

Being busy is not the same as being productive.

Creativity operates differently. You work hard because you're inspired to, not because you have to. Work becomes fun, and you have energy for days because this life is not a "young man's game." It is an "inspired person's game.