Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they are really vibrating- the energy they are emanating will attract their circumstances.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

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

Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.

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

Punctuality is the thief of time

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.