Work Done Quotes - Page 6

• Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pain, Self, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

  Tayari Jones

  School, Years, Mentor

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• I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

  Gordon Parks

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• I am a very organized person. I get up at 6:15 a.m., the kids get up at 6:45 a.m., and so I get up and get it in. I’m addicted to the high function. To me it’s a work thing - if you meditate, you can get so much work done. I always say to people you know how about three nights a year you get a good night sleep? You can have it every day with meditation.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Good Night, Sleep, Kids

  "Jerry Seinfeld’s Secret For Not Snapping At His Kids". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2015.

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• When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Tasks

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• Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

  Arthur Bloch

  Work, Errors, Reliability

  Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

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• I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

  Jan Karon

  Color, Editors, Fiction

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• I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Phones, Would Be, Use

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• As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

  Steven Rattner

  Differences, Done, Interest

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• For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Party, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Girl, Football, Kids

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• The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Children, Practice

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I: "The Education of the Architect", Section 1,

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• Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

  Katori Hall

  Directors, Needs, Actors

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• I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

  Dave Eggers

  Self, Yesterday, Eight

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

  Cory Lidle

  Guy, Done, Weight

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• People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Smart, Hard Work

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• I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Done, Computer

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Long, Quality

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• The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.

  Ricardo Semler

  Keys, Watches, Done

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• True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.

  Herman Melville

  Work, Humanity, Wicked

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

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• I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.

  Jimmy Wales

  Reading, Google, Wikipedia

  "Jimmy Wales: The Internet's Shy Evangelist". Interview with Emily Dugan, www.independent.co.uk. October 22, 2011.

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• Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Thinking, Done

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.66, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

  Michael Shannon

  Character, Magic, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Long, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 561), 1922.

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• Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

  George Peabody

  Order, Done, Tasks

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