Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.
Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it’s a choice.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it’s very relaxed and chill. I’m just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
Life is about growth and exploration, not achieving a fixed state of balance. You have a very limited time on earth to experience all that you can. Figuring out how to squeeze the most out of your family, work, and spirituality is your life’s purpose. Go do it.
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.
Young people are threatened… by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don’t take anything too seriously, it’ll all work out in the end.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
I tend to be so lost in the work that I don’t notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, ‘Beautiful day, wasn’t it?’ and I’ll say, ‘Was it?’ as I won’t have noticed the real world at all.
There’s no right way or wrong way to work. There’s only your way.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
I’ve worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I’ve also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it’s important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I’ve been helped a lot in my life.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
It’s the best feeling when you wake up and it’s warm and cozy, and you don’t have to go to work.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
You see opportunity… Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you’re ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
People can say what they want, but at the end of the day, I’m going to keep working on my game. I always know I have things to work on.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they’ve done for our family.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Increasingly, the work we do is enabled more and more by new IT, including automation, robotics, and intelligent platforms.
I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what’s the point. You can’t take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
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.
Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.
Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don’t ourselves experience.
