Work Quotes - Page 72

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was interested in making. I still do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but the reason I can move quickly is that I've done the background work first, which no one usually sees. I prepare myself thoroughly, and then when it is time to move ahead, I am ready to sprint.

If I wanted to get my arms as big as I could possibly get them, I would probably do around 20 sets of 4 exercises and 5 sets each for the triceps and 20 sets for the biceps per workout 3 times a week. That would be around 60 sets of triceps and 60 sets of biceps work per week. I would keep the reps between 6 and 8 and I would do all basic movements where I'd handle as heavy a weight as possible. I'd consume nutritious food that had calories in and just flat out eat!

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

As one woman told me, "When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy." This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks' notice, she woke up happy. At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn't quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she's still on the job, radiating happiness and love.

I'm a work in progress.

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.