Work Quotes - Page 35

• Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Years, Ideas

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• If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

  Jello Biafra

  School, Ifs

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• Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness.

  Salvador Bernal

  Prayer, Reflection, Reality

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• I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Thinking, Tasks

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• ...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.

  Salvador Bernal

  Perseverance, Roots, Leaving

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• Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged to adopt: a positive attitude "attracts" or "fulfils", depending on which author's weird science you go with, postiive results, with little or no action on your part required. Herein, too, lies the answer to the question I once posed ...: would it be enough just to fake a winning attitude? No way, according to Doyle.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Attitude, Lying, Book

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• People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they are really vibrating- the energy they are emanating will attract their circumstances.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Attitude, People, Energy

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2006). “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Slave, Thirds

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• There’s more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

  Alex Steffen

  Home, Decision, Environmental

  "On green building, urban development, and reviving rural America". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. September 1, 2005.

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• All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Technology, Opportunity

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• When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.

  Marc Benioff

  Business, Smart, Opportunity

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get your sleep and a little bit of food; and work as much as you can. There's so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors, and you'll find a way to do what you love.

  David Lynch

  Jobs, Sleep, Doors

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do.

  Stephen King

  Sex, Writing, Unique

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Skills, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Men

  Treadmill to Oblivion pt. 2 (1954)

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• SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Issues, Stories, Magazines

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

  Aristophanes

  Circles, Four, Century

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• I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

  Blaise Pascal

  Distance, Math, Views

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• The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.

  George Will

  Want

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• To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Vanity, Self, Joy

  Immanuel Kant (2012). “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

  Hyman Rickover

  Government, Pie, Trying

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• It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

  James A. Michener

  Thinking, Years, Opera

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• The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Math, Uniforms, Construction

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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, Ideas, Ordinary

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• The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

  Kofi Annan

  Reform, Able, Months

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