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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 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 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 accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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 have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn't have to come at the expense of our economy's bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn't have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.

"I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

I loved work and I loved pouring myself into the work, you know. It was the real life that I had trouble with.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.