Quotes About Ethic

If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.

When you start thinking it is a party instead of putting your suit and tie on and getting your job done and handling your business, you are thinking about the wrong thing.

I grew up - my dad, every time I was with my dad, he was always - not always, but he wrote. He's a writer. So he was always in his office writing. He made a plan and, like, a point of, 'This is my work. I'm going to do this every day for these amount of hours.' So I think that's where I got, like, a work sort of ethic.

I can look back now and say, 'Aw, that was a little dumb taking huge bumps onto concrete before a couple of hundred fans,' but if it wasn't for that attitude and that type of work ethic, I never would have gotten to WWE.

Teachers may think of caring as unconditional praise, or as quickly incorporating cultural components into the curriculum, or even as lowering standards. On the contrary, others have argued, an "ethic of care" means a combination of respect, admiration, and rigorous standards.

If people are not inspired from within, it will not be possible to build a good work ethic. Work

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.

had been part of an organization that promoted isolation from the outside world, that cultivated the "us versus them" ethic. I had been part of the cult of the blue religion and now I was out, excommunicated, part of the outside world. I had no badge. I was no longer part of us. I was one of them.

Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

You can question my shooting. You can question my ceiling. Just don't question if I'm giving my all every single night. Don't talk to me about tanking.

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

Por qué miran con tanto desdén? —preguntó Chloé—. Al fin y al cabo, trabajar no es para tanto. —Se les ha inculcado la idea de que trabajar es algo bueno —dijo Colin—. En general, se considera así. Pero, de hecho, no hay nadie que lo piense. Se hace por costumbre y para no pensar en ello precisamente.

But, to salve my conscience, I must feel the pain of work

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

A man doesn't have to like his duty. He just has to do it." She

A man doesn't have to like his duty. He just has to do it.

the injustice and systemic oppression that we see in the world today stem from a deep, collective lovelessness and calls for an ethic of love.

Humanity demands from their leaders the courage to sin. To take account of reality means to take account of the devil. And to take account of the devil without degenerating and slipping into him is a difficult skill; it is the true problem of an ethic of balance, of the true center, not the ethic of simply negating what resists the demands of honesty, conviction, and love.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get a good job, but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

the devil finds employment for the idle —