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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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  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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• People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Business

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

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.

  Gene Kim

  Important, Improving

  Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford (2014). “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”, p.212, IT Revolution

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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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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

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

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Inspirational Life, Add, Goes On

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• It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

  William Osler

  Home, Health, Men

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

  Martin Mull

  Art, Cracks, Involved

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

  George Halas

  Work, Office Jobs, Nfl

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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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• I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.

  Neil Armstrong

  Pieces, One Piece, Fireworks

  "Neil Armstrong - First Television Interview (Part-2)". "60 minutes", www.youtube.com. 2005.

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