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Quotes About Ethic

It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.
~ Diego Klattenhoff
You can't cheat the game. You can't cheat the grind. You get out what you put in at the end of the day.
~ DaBaby
The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
~ Stephen Covey
I was tasked to provide some much-needed adult supervision and demonstrate necessary tactical proficiency when dealing with enemy threats through the appropriate use of precision fires in accordance with the warrior ethic. What are you doing here, soldier?
~ Stephen Knight
If there is, in classical madness, something which refers elsewhere, and to other things, it is no longer because the madman comes from the world of the irrational and bears its stigmata; rather, it is because he crosses the frontiers of bourgeois order of his own accord, and alienates himself outside the sacred limits of its ethic.
~ Michel Foucault
People expected something for nothing, that's why they did nothing so beautifully these days.
~ Holly Hood, Prison of Paradise
I was not born here by my consciousness towards a land ethic was
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Do not sit by while others are working. Do not avoid heavy work or seek light work. Do not covet the work of others or compare your work with others. Do not take on work beyond your capacity or state of health.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Bailing on a company is just something you don't do.
~ Peter Fenton
People that know they gotta work every day, them the kinda people I respect.
~ Young Dolph
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
~ Bill Cosby
Teachers who complain 'These kids have no work ethic' couldn't be farther off the mark. The problem is not that these kids lack a work ethic; the problem is that some of them see no connection between a work ethic and school. None of them would think, for example, to say to a customer at the MacDonald's drive-up window, 'Do you think I could get you those Chicken McNuggets some time tomorrow?' Yet we give sanction to that sort of request when it comes to school assignments.
~ Garret Keizer
Scrooge's ethic reflected those of writer-artist Carl Barks, who hailed "honor, honesty, [and] allowing other people to believe in their own ideas, not trying to force everyone into one form
~ Brian Jay Jones
A strong work ethic is a form of accountability, because it involves keeping a promise to one's employer. It is not the same thing as workaholism.
~ Bruce Weinstein
There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic … a blind faith in some higher and wiser "authority." The Pope, The General, The Prime Minister … all the way up to "God.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Sympathy? Not for me. No mercy for a criminal freak in Las Vegas. This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails - eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
It was an organization of freethinkers, in which a spirit of teamwork blended with an ethic of informality and an esprit de corps. It was built around a handful of talented
~ Ian W. Toll
At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
~ Erin Cummings
You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.
~ Ali Krieger
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
~ Confucius
fragile. So that to be able to defy a culture which states that 'Thou shalt not touch this,' and to defy that with one's own creative powers is . . . the essence." The essence, of course, of the Hacker Ethic.
~ Steven Levy
in keeping with the Hacker Ethic, no artificial boundaries were maintained.
~ Steven Levy