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

Work your craft; until it becomes an art from.

In many ways an artist is his work. It’s difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn’t work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album — or song — you can be sure that I’ve...

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.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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.

Coffee has a way of waking me up like no alarm clock can. Not only do I sleepwalk, but I sleepdrink, and I often don’t wake up until 5:00 PM, when I leave work.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

O Lord, take my hands and let them work incessantly for Thee. ‘ 

If we have something experimental, nonstandard, and we say, ‘Well, it should work’ and I’m going to spend $30 million of their (taxpayer’s) dollars? No, I can’t do that.

I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance…. Unless you have a lotof passion about this, you’re not going to survive. You’re going to give it up. So you’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right...

says Laak. ”So I had to work on my plan.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

I was told I’ll be out of work as of Jan. 27.

Too many questions. I’ll answer a question with a question: Do you know how it’s going to work, because I sure don’t?

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

why it won’t work for me” excuses.You’re willing to waste years of your life walking away from your dreams instead of running toward your destiny.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.

He works on everybody individually and finds their weak points and helps them work at it even though they don’t want to. There’s a lot of people on this team with weak points.

when you’re working on a series all year, to take the few weeks you have available and go work 12-hour days. That’s the other thing; I was used to working six hours a day, four days a week, then you go work to 14-hour days for 22 days. That’s considered an easy shoot, but I...

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

It’s a good thing that was preseason, … We’ve still got a few more days to work on things.

I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it.

He doesn’t need the work tonight. I’m just being smart about it.

She hardly ever began conversations with strangers just to talk. It was not a matter of shyness. For her, a conversation had a straightforward function. How do I get to the pharmacy? or How much does the hotel room cost? Conversation also had a professional function. […] When she worked as a researcher […], she...

Nein, die Schule hat keinen bestimmenden Einfluss auf meine Entwicklung gehabt. Die Schule hat von meinen besonderen Anlagen wohl instinktiv etwas gespürt, sie aber als obstinate Untauglichkeit gewertet und verworfen. Ein Lehrer drohte, zufällig nicht mir, sondern einem anderen Schüler, mit den Worten: “Ich werde dir deine Karriere schon verderben!” Am gleichen Tag las ich...

When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

This is a very good start but there is a lot of work to be done.

There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

Der feste Beruf auf Lebenszeit […] ist ein Produkt der Industrialisierung.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn’t feel so good today.

to work on the seller platform, making it easier for sellers to sell.

You could do projection work onto these other buildings. You’d need permission, of course. Unless you own them.

What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.

We really worked on him. We really tried to front him. We tried to make him work hard to get the basketball. I thought we did a good job on him. We just couldn’t keep him off the free-throw line.

There’s just a lot of issues to work with, and the next one is regulation.

We’re a team that our work ethic has to be 100 percent, our concentration has to be 100 percent and our desperation has to be 100 percent. At the moment that we slip away a little bit, we are going to be in real trouble. (Saturday) all the things I just mentioned were not there...

worried and looking for work.

Now that the settlement is done, RIM can work on improving their relationship with their customers.

It is not only the weary Homo faber, who objectifies the world in the ‘doing’ mode, who must vacate his place on the logical stage; the time has also come for Homo religiosus, who turns to the world above in surreal rites, to bid a deserved farewell. Together, workers and believers come into a new...

I get up at seven yeah and I go to work at nine. I got no time for livin’. Yes I’m workin’ all the time. It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that’s why they call me they call me the workin’ man.