Quotes
Quotes about Work
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. -Christina Baldwin.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.
How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsley nor bomb poppies nor purchase antipeople papers. They plant papayas, and peppers. Their pulpit is the popular* not the papal but poplars. * not in the sense of ephemeral fame but what the people want.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. -Joe E. Lewis.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
You only live onceâbut if you work it right, once is enough.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.
Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!
