Work Quotes - Page 17

• It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.

  Chris Hadfield

  Passion, Cowboy, Details

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.

  George Eliot

  Men, Giving, Pay

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.121, Wordsworth Editions

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• The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

  Abraham Maslow

  People, Facts, Lost

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.211, John Wiley & Sons

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• One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Light, Weather

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• Out of the work comes the work.

  John Cage

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• Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

  Paul Gauguin

  Faithful

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Sweat, Buckets

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

  Jennifer Lopez

  The End Of The Day, Want, Speak

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• A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

  Barbara Walters

  Jobs, Thinking, Careers

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• The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

  John Gregory Dunne

  Book, Nerves, Very Good

  John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.197, Zola Books

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• You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Real, Mean, Men

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• There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

  Jeff Lynne

  People, Littles, Come Up

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• For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Compassion, Humanity, Progress

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• Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

  Eleanora Duse

  Mean, Love Is, Miracle

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• Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

  Dolly Parton

  Ambition, Kitchen, Trying

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• Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

  George Grosz

  Different, Done, Painting

  "Art of the 20th Century, Part 1". Book by Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane Fricke, p. 190, 2000.

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• What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Law, Would Be

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

  Garson Kanin

  Jobs, Firsts, Performances

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• How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Simple, Years, Punishment

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• And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Love You, Empty

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Jobs, Thinking

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Twitter post from Jan 12, 2012

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• Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 11, 2014

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• All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Christian, Perseverance, Religious

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!

  Annie Dillard

  Doors, Discipline, Self Control

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