Work Quotes - Page 36

• Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Body, Plant, Grass

  "Grass" l. 1 (1918)

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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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• [It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Connections, Impossible, Midst

  Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

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• An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Expression, Organization, Rooms

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.86, Penguin

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• He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

  Conrad Aiken

  Views, Firsts, Emotion

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• But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

  Anton Chekhov

  Eye, Gold, Looks

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.1438, Delphi Classics

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• There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Despair, Calling

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.168

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• We are often so caught up in our activities that we tend to worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Play, Worship, Caught

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• One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be HIs partners in completing the work of creation.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Years, Sage, Wheat

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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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• 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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• After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only one more season. I have been wrestling with the timing of announcing that decision. After seeing the outstanding attitude and work ethic of this team, I came to the conclusion that it's best to get the announcement out of the way now so we can focus on the season and avoid the repeated distractions that come from questions about my retirement.

  LaVell Edwards

  Retirement, Attitude, Team

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• The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

  Louis Agassiz

  Age, Ploughing, Earth

  Louis Agassiz (1876). “Geological Sketches”

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• In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, Rising

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• What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Posterity, Artist

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.512, Jester House Publishing

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• Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

  Michael Korda

  Males, Method, Minimum

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• It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

  Peter O'Toole

  Grieving, Perfect, Produce

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• No work begun shall ever pause for death.

  Robert Browning

  Pauses

  Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book”, p.289, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

  Auguste Rodin

  Littles, Born, Proportion

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• If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Busy, Thee, Ifs

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Running, Long, Evil

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• We don't work for each other, We work with each other.

  Stanley Gault

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• Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

  William E. Gladstone

  Political, Letters, Constitution

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• Being smart young men, they say to themselves, "I want to get married, have a family, and I understand my wife wants to work too. Do you, Vicki, know how to help us do that?" Because they're no longer looking at that prospective wife, saying, "Well this is wonderful, you're getting educated, but of course as soon as we get married, you're going to stay home and make babies."

  Vicki Donlan

  Baby, Smart, Home

  Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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