If my kid couldn’t draw I’d make sure that my kitchen magnets didn’t work.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
I always tell people that this is a really simple deal: Work hard. If you work hard, follow what’s required and set your priorities right, then you can really perform without taking shortcuts. If you’re taking shortcuts, you can’t be free.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn’t work out, it’s another nightmare for me.
Honor lies in honest toil.
Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.
All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
We have much work ahead, to stand still.
A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
It’s not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it’s that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you’re pushing yourself to do it.
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
I’m working myself to death.
I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
We all have a responsibility to try and make this world better, whether it’s through our work, the causes we champion, the way that we treat people, or the values we impart to the next generation.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
My work is a game, a very serious game.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
Liquid architecture. It’s like jazz – you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it’s a way of – for me, it’s a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Through a long and painful process, I’ve learned that happiness is an inside job – not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I’ve become a different and better person – not perfect, but still a work in progress.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.
If you want peace work for justice.
My life isn’t focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I’m doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.
One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
I couldn’t sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
Give me love and work – these two only.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
