I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

The goal is not simply to ‘work hard, play hard.’ The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.

And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that had sprung up mysteriously overnight or the old ones that had been stricken with disease and lay cracked apart–a head here, a broken body and three lumps of coal there–and...

I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. Thetwo long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on tocommit suicide, and others were argumentative.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

You did what you were told or you didn’t get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn’t your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn’t your fault, no one...

…you’ll still be beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Goodbye.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.

If it would work anywhere, I think it would work here because of the guys in the locker room. Guys would keep him straight. … I think he’d conform. He’d fit in here.

En mi trabajo había aprendido que cuando deseas que alguien te facilite una información y puede negarse a ello, la mejor manera de intentarlo es con una petición algo más que educada.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

Be a Person. Not a Resumé.

It’s all about not forgetting. He was a great kid with a great work ethic. It’s hard to even talk about it. You feel like he’s still with us, but he’s not with us. (With) everything we do, we have Logan on our minds.

unfold” creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God’s pattern of creative cultural development.

Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.

Every milestone in the history of the company, even when forecast with heaps of hoopla, was ultimately played out according to some secret timeline of geologic tedium, so that it was drained of all interest and drama well before it took place and afterward went all but unnoticed.

I think I read about it from a golfer in a magazine, tried it, and it seemed to work for me.

It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either signifies nothing or has only a negative significance.If, on the other hand, we believe that we are living souls, God’s dust and God’s breath, acting our parts among other creatures all made of...

The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable…. It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that “to work is to pray.” (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)

It’s poise. We celebrated in that game and got it over with. Now, we know we have work to do.

We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work is unifying, healing. It brings us home from pride and from despair, and places us responsible within the human estate. It defines us as we are: not too good...

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

While working on The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci regularly took off from painting for several hours at a time and seemed to be daydreaming aimlessly. Urged by his patron, the prior of Santa Maria delle Grazie, to work more continuously, da Vinci is reported to have replied, immodestly but accurately, ‘The greatest geniuses accomplish...

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.

We know that we have a lot of work to do before the championships in May and June. We have time to get faster.

Daja: “He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other.” Lark: “I didn’t say they liked it.- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane’s cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

We had to find a way to make them work aesthetically and practically. I could tell which of the actresses had worn hats before, because as soon as they put them on, they started working them. Working it is part of wearing the hat.

Work is love made plain, whether man’s work or woman’s work.

My God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken me?We have found that man must depend on himself. He must clear the land; he must build the home; he must plow and plant; he must invent; he must work with hand and brain; he must overcome the difficulties and obstructions; he must conquer and enslave the...

Most companies have enough bandwidth to handle all their work plus a little extra for emergencies, but they pay a premium for going over their allocation, so it really becomes a matter of money.

That work (surveying) is still ongoing and I’m awaiting the results, Urban said.

We don’t choose our wildest dreams. They choose us.

Those who constantly work are always praised.

People don’t get jobs to achieve things and learn values! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever’s left over to buy themselves nice things that make them feel less bad about having jobs!

Only a good intellect can orient towards good work.

I was wondering, ‘Is this going to work?’

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man’s work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.

Do what you do only for God’s sake, start for God’s sake, work for God’s sake, and act within the sphere of God’s good approval.

Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real.

Dress well because you can; not because its a choice imposed you.

The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.

In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.

When we started doing this work a number of years ago, determining the genotype of an SNP in a patient cost nearly a dollar, and we could do hundreds a day.

I suppose I could get a job to have something to do, but working when I don’t have to work would be like pulling a straight and healthy tooth — pointless and extremely painful.”–David Palmer

I work 10 to 12 hour days and Saturday’s and some Sunday’s.

We have work to do along the line.

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.