Work Quotes - Page 60

I work hard because I love my work.

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of your parents. I think it'll be a much more interesting world. I think this could change the way the planet is run.

I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Two heads are better than one.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of the work he has himself done; i.e., the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow workers, and the more his own requirements are satisfied, not out of his own work done, but out of work done by the others.

Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation - that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno - I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.

I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer's task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.