Work Quotes - Page 36

• Practice non-action. Work without doing.

  Laozi

  Practice, Action, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Discovery, Effort

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• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Taken, Butterfly, Knowledge

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• No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

  David O. McKay

  Family, Home, Miracle

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• 'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

  Ezra Pound

  Night, Views, Two

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.57, Delphi Classics

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• Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Home, Views

  "The Green Options". May 29, 2007.

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• If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Jobs, Attitude, Should

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• Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Night, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Christian, Gdp, Islam

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• My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

  Guy Kawasaki

  World, Week, Hours

  Guy Kawasaki (2008). “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition”, p.61, Penguin

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• I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hours In The Day, Imagine, Poor

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.121, A&C Black

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• Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong, Justice, Desire

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• And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Writing, Order, Justice

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• No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

  James Russell Lowell

  Blessed, Men, Hands

  'A Glance Behind the Curtain' (1844)

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• In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside."

  James Keller

  Heart, Garden, Light

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• The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

  Whitney M. Young

  Unemployment, World, Unemployed

  "Independent Lens. The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Together, World

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

  John Zorn

  Home, Phones, Two

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• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Hard Work, Film, Hard

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• Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  May, Impression, Novel

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• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Home, Mean, Doe

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• We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Religious, Way, Limits

  "Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Religion in Russia". www.forerunner.com. May 1, 1996.

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• With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Powerful, Phones, Connections

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• I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Past, Track, Able

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• Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

  Dweezil Zappa

  People, Wells, Havens

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