Daily Work Quotes - Page 2

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

  George Halas

  Work, Office Jobs, Nfl

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hipster

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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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• 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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• I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.

  Bob Beauprez

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

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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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• Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Jobs, Numbers, Complaining

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• Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Home, Buddhism

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• Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones. We also offer to your fatherly hands the toil and sacrifices associated with work, in union with your Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed human work from the yoke of sin and restored it to its original dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Son

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• Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

  John Milton

  Men, Mind, Body

  1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.618-20.

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• Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time
  making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

  Herbert Hoover

  Government, People, Soul

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.162, Stanford University Press

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• I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.

  Dolly Parton

  Spiritual, Affirmation, Songwriting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anytime I feel my feathers ruffle off of someone else's success, I have to check myself. It's normally fear based or ego related and it's my daily work to let it go and focus on me, because that's the only person I can control and make grow.

  Kathryn Budig

  Focus, Ego, Let It Go

  ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Work, Ideas

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• Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Weed, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.113, Xist Publishing

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• The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Saint, Firsts, Ends

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• To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Letting Go, Religious

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• Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

  Gerhard Richter

  Spirit, Painting, Mood

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes for pushing a lever and then retreating to passivity, for democracy demands committed participation in the daily workings of society.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Sports, Country, People

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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• Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Understanding, Lifestyle, Phony

  "A Personal Matter". Book by by Kenzaburo Oe, 1964.

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• Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.

  Martin Luther

  Race, Honor, Important

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