Work Quotes - Page 65

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Far too many bodybuilders spend too much time exercising the smaller muscle groups such as the biceps at the expense of the larger muscle groups such as the thighs, and then they wonder why it is that they never make gains in overall size and strength.

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups don't apply to you. Forget about work hard, get an education, posses good values. No, for you, we'll alter the rules by lowering the standards and expecting less.' Expect less, get less.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.

And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism.

It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Wealth comes from hard work but not because of hard work. Wealth comes because of God. Everything is His.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.