Work Quotes - Page 34

• The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

  Seth Godin

  Life, Motivational, Important

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• It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.

  Seth Godin

  Life, Journey, Ovation

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• I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.

  Seth Godin

  Life, Writing, Laughing

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• Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

  Aldous Huxley

  Prayer, Stink, Prayer Works

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Religion

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.115

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• All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hands, Heaven, Earth

  Thomas Carlyle (1885*). “Complete Works: Frederick the Great, v. 7. Past and present. The portraits of John Knox. Miscellanies”

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• To work is to live without dying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dying

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

  Carrie Fisher

  Special, Purpose, Strategy

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• I can do what I love or I can love what I do. Learn to love the task in front of you.

  Dewitt Jones

  Tasks, Can Do, Fronts

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• Do your homework all of your life.

  Muriel Siebert

  Homework

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• The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

  William Feather

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Trying

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Don't expect others to do your work for you.

  William Safire

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• I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hate, I Hate, Periods

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• To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

  Don Shula

  Successful, Twelve, Half

  Don Shula (1995). “Everyone's a Coach: You Can Inspire Anyone to be a Winner”, Zondervan

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• The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it.

  Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

  Expression, Majority, Demand

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• I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.

  Robert Fulghum

  Religious, Dirty, Fire

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• I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ideas, Faces, Impossible

  Sigmund Freud, Oskar Pfister (1963). “Psycho-analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister”

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• If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

  William Shatner

  Play, Able, Pompous

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• We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Blue, People, Giving

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."

  Bill Gates

  Dancing, Lucky, Warren Buffet

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• It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Privilege, Haughtiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

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• At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Believe, Inspiration, People

  Song: Reason To Believe, Album: Nebraska, 1982

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• God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Knows, Has Beens

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

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• All work is an act of philosophy.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1853, Penguin

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• In books, or work, or healthful play.

  Isaac Watts

  Book, Play

  Isaac Watts, Thomas Park (1807). “The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts ...: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.191

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