I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.
Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.
What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job.
You better do your job and not lean on me to do it for you.
The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.
The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.
Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.
Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can't live without being online.
It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
People don't stop me on the street and throw things at me. But I'm aware of what that dynamic is, so whenever people react strongly to a character and say that they hate me, I take it as a job well done. And for most people, there's a sense of removal. Most people are not saying, "Oh, my god, I hate you!" Most people that have reactions say, "I love to hate your character."
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