Quotes About Work

The job of management is to replace work standards by knowledgeable and intelligent leadership.

Employee involvement, employee participation, and quality of work life, these groups predictably disintegrate within a few months from frustration, finding themselves unwilling parties to a cruel hoax, unable to accomplish anything, for the simple reason that no one in management will take action on suggestions for improvement.

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

You have to consistently work at building your audience or platform.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination

Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.

I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they are in an abridged edition, and you lose the life of the work. Don't think that art that is alive can remain on the same level of interest throughout — and the same is true of life.

When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.

Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

You need the confidence to fail in order to take risks in your work

I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.

Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.