Quotes About Work

What is sanctification? Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.

I'd better get back to work. I have empires to topple, people to fire, lives to ruin...

JAMES AND THE TROUBLE WITH TREES Thomas the Tank Engine had been working in the coal yards all day.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it. WILHELM REICH

?imdi anl?yor musun mutluluk neden senden kaç?yor? Mutluluk, u?runda çal???lmas?n? gerektirir; mutluluk gökten ya?maz, kazan?l?r. Oysa sen mutlulu?u yaln?zca yalay?p yutmak istiyorsun; bu yüzden senden kaç?yor o da; senin kendisini kemirmeni, yutman? istemiyor.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

My experience is that I can think while strolling but cannot engage in mental work that imposes a heavy load on short-term memory.

The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Prospect theory turned out to be the most significant work we ever did, and our article is among the most often cited in the social sciences.

While writing the article that reported these findings, Amos and I discovered that we enjoyed working together.

Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it.

occupations by probability and by similarity in exactly the same way.

Aici nu exist? mai devreme sau mai târziu... aici exist? doar munc?, asta facem aici.

I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.

we are all in business—all of us who work and provide services to our fellow man.

They teach children that all opinions are equally valid. But this is simply not true. When you work for someone, be they an employer or customer, your view is not as valid or important as theirs. Period. If your view is as valid as your bosses, why should you listen to them?

Pay and profit tell you that you are supplying a need and filling other people's wants. They are not the motivation for your work, they are the validation of your work.

So what motivates people to work hard every day to do things that will satisfy the economy's needs but not their own? Like so many thinkers, Smith believed that people want just one thing—happiness—hence economies can blossom and grow only if people are deluded into believing that the production of wealth will make them happy.14 If and only if people hold this false belief will they do enough producing, procuring, and consuming to sustain their economies.

Ocidente construiu um olhar sobre o trabalho colocando-o como o centro da vida, da realização e da dignidade da pessoa humana. E jogou por terra outros pensamentos, outras teorias, outras práticas que não levavam em consideração uma visão de tempo centrada na produção.

they must create the environment for action. In June 1967 Robert Kennedy said, "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself. But each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts, will be written the history of this generation" (p. 237).