Work Quotes - Page 85

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.

Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Little things affect little minds.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.