Working Quotes
288 quotes
"Hard at work? I’ll give you a hand—my right hand. It’s a handshake, for networking and encouragement purposes. Keep it up!"
"I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes--everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!"
"If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead."
"Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for."
"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
"One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return."
"Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!"
"If in large part we were concerned only with making it through another day without getting laid off, there was a smaller part just hoping to leave for the night without contributing to someone’s lifetime of hurt."
"When there is life and you are not working towards your hope, then that hope will produce no result"
"More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do."
"Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling."
"Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers."
Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
"I'd rather teach you how to make BREAD than give you a SLICE from my BREAD."
"Many people know they're working, but not what they're working."
"Relationships are working either for our good and success, or they are harming us"
"You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it."
"You don't have to be the most educated or the most experienced to start the journey, but the most willing to out-learn and out-work everyone around you."
"A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty."
"Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over."
"If you build it well, a satisfaction comesAn honor to say I built that with fidelity,Purpose, value and integrity"
"In a job you trade your freedom and time for money."
"Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus."
"I devote my life in service of humanity."
"If you have job, be grateful."
"Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs."
"Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people."
"For many people, a western lifestyle equates to living in a toxic home, working a toxic job, eating toxic food, being sick from your thirties onward and eventually dying from preventable disease."
"What separates a weak dreamer and a great dreamer is who is wishing and waiting or who is willing and working."
"When people keep TALKING about you, don't waste time listening to what they say, keep WORKING on what you dream about."
"I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hiding, and though I worked every day until midnight, I felt I was much more in charge of myself than I had ever been."
"Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society."
Majid Kazmi, The First Dancer: How to be the first among equals and attract unlimited opportunities
"Working with women is such a rewarding experience because as you interact with them, you realize that although they face various struggles, women have one goal, to see the world change for the better."
"If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders"
"Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man"
"A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being."
"If you do everything with love and joy, you will find your soul."
"If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!"
"You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science."
"Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn’t feel so good today."
"Let your autobiography contain these words; "I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently". Thinking, loving and working are what make us different from animals and trees."
"Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump."
"A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted."
"The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave."
"Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring."
"Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life."
"I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot."
"A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme."
"The term "work" is getting thrown around as though everyone seems to be doing so. The question is, working for what? Every time I am at work, it means I am getting closer to my goal. Once you have the vision, you work towards it."
"There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work."
"If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA."
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