Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

I’ve always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don’t have a brain.

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

What would you consider a good job?” Answered as follows:”A good job is one in which I don’t have to work, and get paid a lot of money.”When I heard that I cheered and yelled...

I think that is totally uncalled for and inaccurate because the staff here is more than willing to work with people to help them through the process.

As Aristotle said, ‘Excellence is a habit.’ I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He...

And you’re stuck like a hook through the roof of your mouthTired of living for your sick daysEvery day makes you sickTired of living just get paidWhen you’re dying to livebut you can’t

The vision of life is not a “discovery”; it’s a “work” and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built on your visions if you go high and find yourself doing...

Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful...

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

When you love your work then it isn’t work, it’s your love affair.

When we start being too impressed by the results of our work, we slowly come to the erroneous conviction that life is one large scoreboard where someone is listing the points to measure our worth....

The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself...

Let’s all roll up our sleeves and get back to work. Or let’s create jobs where other people roll up other people’s sleeves, so these other people can get to work helping other people get...

The goal is not to pray and wait around for a miracle to happen, but to pray and then worker harder than ever with faith.

At this point it would appear they are where they should be, … They have a lot of work to do in the next few weeks, but it appears they are on line to have...

I don’t think anybody could say with a straight face that there hasn’t been some of the flow of work hasn’t been more challenging. Leadership challenges can rub emotions raw and strain relationships.

They’re doing the work that a student would do in an honors course. Putting that label on it makes it more valuable to the student. It shows they are doing more than the other students...

Take pride in your workweek, not your weak work.

Taking a break. Been working solid for the last few hours, as opposed to working liquid, which is more drinkable. Can I pour you a glass of productivity?

That’s what makes him The Godfather. It always seems to work out.

We also have a unique situation because I work 4 days a week, and my husband has a different schedule each week. We needed someone to be flexible with the hours we used. We didn’t...

We’ve found that these voluntary programs just don’t work,

Sometimes, … we go to call one, and just start at the top and work our way down. But Michelle is actually very organized, and she does a very good job of keeping everything together.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

They’re very important to the hockey team. I wouldn’t even call them third or fourth lines. They work so hard and they cause a lot of trouble.

The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of...

The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and...

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It’s the curse...

We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family members, and our coworkers, and we couldn’t believe we were getting paid for...

I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet – the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the...

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 bring few regrets, and life...

Work is not your enemy but your friend. How you work, not what you do, determines the course of your life. You may work grudgingly or you may work gratefully; you may work as a...

I think he got enough work in the preseason to be ready for the first game. We did the best we could under the circumstances. We’ll continue to try to develop him in the beginning...

[…] they imagine that the life they are obliged to lead is not that for which they are really fitted, and they bring to their regular occupations either a fantastic indifference or a sustained and...

Another nine percent is mediocre, and then there are those rare gems that are actually useable.

Work like you don’t need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you’ve never been hurt.

It’s a combination of reacting to lower volume of work and providing the work at a lower cost location and therefore at a lower price.

A man must earn his daily bread by some means some-where, and if his bread fails to nourish his soul, at least his body will be nourished while his soul suffers.

Congratulations go out to Ben. We’ll go back to work and try to improve tomorrow and give it another good race.

We have become a team. Everyone is ready to work and make sacrifices. We were able to bounce back from when we were 1-2 (at the start of the season, then again in conference play)....

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at...

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

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.