Work Quotes - Page 21

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

All work and no play is not good for the soul

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.

When I first met him [James Galanis], he just said, "Look, if you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You’ve got to put it number one."

The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

No great work of art is ever finished.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.