Quotes About Work

What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next--to be drenched in work as one is drenched in sleep or the sea.

Without the discipline of work, they had invented the discipline of etiquette, and it had become just as ruthless a master.

Would it always be like this? Endless days of needlework, painting, house chores and skills, teas, Papa and Dominic coming home? What did other people do? They married and raised children, ran houses. Of course the poor worked, and society went to parties, rode in the park or in coaches, and presumably had families as well?

Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?

If her time had been her own, she would have worked in the garden. That always soothed her spirits.

her sister's snuffly breaths across the room. Okay, then: think of Derek's proposal. He had no idea how much he'd asked of her, suggesting she give up her work with Dr. Brogan. The discovery of language had been her great epiphany in college.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity.

Process is nothing; erase your tracks. The path is not the work. I hope your tracks have grown over; I hope birds ate the crumbs; I hope you will toss it all and not look back.

An honest work generates its own power; a dishonest work tries to rob power from the cataracts of the given.

There definitely is an overriding optimism in most of your songs. People don't mind a little misery, but they also like happy endings. It's nice to leave some hope at the end that things will work out. See, Lindsey won't do that. He'll say, "Go your own way." I wouldn't, most likely.

Construction workers are more important to everyday life than stockbrokers and yet are far lower down the social and financial ladder.

Bez bavljenja pitanjem mogu?nosti pristojnog zaposlenja nema ni govora o regeneraciji sindikata

Vreme potrebno za "oporavak od posla" preduslov je za postojanje bilo kakve borbe. Radni?ka klasa ne može ni biti nosilac društvenih promena, ni raditi na regeneraciji sindikata ukoliko radništvo nema vremena da ?ita, razmišlja, prisustvuje sastancima, diskutuje, analizira, da radi na strategijama, da sanja i da deluje.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

Writers write. Runners run. Establish your identity by doing your work.

When our name is on a project, our ego pushes us over the hump and drives us to do even better work.

The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

There are fewer and fewer good jobs where you can get paid merely for showing up. Instead, successful organizations are paying for people who make a difference and are shedding everyone else. Just

If all you do at work is hope to survive, your day can't be much fun. We're all working too hard. Putting in more hours than we'd like, nervous about the future, uncertain about our roles and our goals. We work too hard to hope for mere survival. Our goal must be to thrive and prosper, not just get by.