I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that’s fine.
Success doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You’re only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.
I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.
My dad said to me, ‘Work hard and be patient.’ It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
I’ve got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did – his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work – just unbelievable energy.
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top – in business or in sports.
To have faith doesn’t mean you get any less frustrated when you don’t do your best, but you know that it’s not life and death. Take what you’re given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you’re being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you’re putting positive energy into the world, and you’re appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it’ll work out.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I’m truly living.
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.
No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
It’s not like after winning an award, your job is done and you can relax. You still have to work hard.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
For me, the main thing is to continue to work, continue to grind on everything and stay focused.
Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don’t know how to feel good about the work you’re doing or the life you’re leading.
Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
I will continue to work hard until I get to where I want to be.
It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
To say, ‘well done’ to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
You only do good work when you’re taking risks and pushing yourself.
Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
I’ve learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
The world’s pretty big. I have to see everything, do everything, eat everything. You’ll never be as young as you are right now, so while your legs still work, while you still have the breath in your lungs, go. At the end of our lives, we only regret the things we didn’t do.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.
Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe. When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There’s no formulas. It’s all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever.
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they’re over-the-hill at age 50, I don’t understand it.
