Daily Work Quotes

• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Funny, Life, Running

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• Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

  Joseph Badaracco

  Creativity, Mean, Helping Others

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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  The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Inspirational Life, Add, Goes On

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

  James A. Baldwin

  Work, Men, Fire

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• Tough times never last, but tough people do.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

  Howard Aiken

  Life And Love, Business, Congratulations

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

  Alvar Aalto

  Cities, Architecture, Problem

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• A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

  Norman Douglas

  Attitude, Believe, Men

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• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

  Beryl Markham

  Wisdom, Perseverance, Business

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Focus, Example

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• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Determination, Work

  "Mindfulness" edited by Ellen J. Langer, (p. 133), 1989.

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• We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

  Vicente Fox

  Communication, Squares, Media

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• Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

  John Owen

  Sin, Killing, Mortification

  John Owen (1842). “The Mortification of Sin in Believers: Containing the Necessity, Nature and Means of It; with a Resolution of Sundry Cases of Conscience Thereto Belonging”, p.9

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Work, Book

  "Daily routines of Nikola Tesla, Mozart, Hemingway, Woody Allen, Maya Angelou, van Gogh, Stephen King, and Nabokov" by Thomas Oppong, www.cnbc.com. February 7, 2017.

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