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

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

If you can't be bothered to work on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get - it's all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

I hate Sunday, I can't wait for Monday so I can go back to work again.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.