I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.
While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you’ve got the confidence and the work ethic, you can make any dream come true.
There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there’s no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.
Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
You will have ups and downs – but believe anything is possible. With hard work, it can come off.
I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.
Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.
It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude… Don’t complain; just work harder… Never give up.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
When you see validation for a life’s work and dedication, it’s a beautiful day.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
I am really excited and thankful for opportunity to work with Cotto Promotions, Tidal and Roc Nation.
Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.
Our work is never over.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Some of our finest work comes through service to others.
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.
I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.
You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get better.
I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.
I try to keep in mind that it’s a long journey. It’s not a race. It’s about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that’s all I really want to do… and pay my bills.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life’s work.
