Quotes About Work

It's amazing that people actually get paid for what I'm doing on here for free.

There's no other way but work, work and work. Read widely, live wildly, plumb the depths of your­self, turn your­self inside out until you find your voice

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.

A cup of tea is all I need to keep working.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And

Why would anyone willingly take on this line of work? The interview for the job, that single act of sex, is certainly fun. But then you get hired to raise a child.

Essentially, exercise improves a whole host of abilities prized in the classroom and at work.

There's no such thing as a firewall between personal issues and work productivity.

Dating goes in stages. The first is the best. Conversation is new; conversation exists. You go to a restaurant, the girl goes to sit down, the guy pulls the chair out, puts the chair back in. Six, seven months go by: "What? You think I work here? Sit down and don't order the lobster, okay?"

"...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers

A career may end with retirement and lots of "toys." A calling isn't over until the day you die.

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it while you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

The simple insight that management is not leadership (chapter 2) is better understood today, but not nearly as well as is needed. Management makes a system work. It helps you do what you know how to do. Leadership builds systems or transforms old ones.

Management makes a system work. It helps you do what you know how to do. Leadership builds systems or transforms old ones.

I know the answer to improving Jess's condition doesn't lay in tears the answer is in sweat.

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do their job "with God".

We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is.

Knowledge about Him will not do. Work for Him will not do. We must have personal, vital fellowship with Him; otherwise, Christianity becomes a joyless burden.

Therefore, at the heart of the meaning of work is creativity. If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God, but like God—that is, if you are human—your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great.

Pragmatism and subjectivism obscure the reality of the truth. They engage the mind, but they make it the servant of our desires and our work. But they can't answer which desires I should pursue and which work is worthwhile.

The entire life and work of Jesus is one great argument why we should listen to his word. Page after page of the New Testament Gospels pile up reasons to turn off the television and listen to Jesus.

Thinking that our work will glorify God when people do not know we are Christians is like admiring an effective ad on TV that never mentions the product. People may be impressed but won't know what to buy.