Work Quotes
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
Ben Kingsley
Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!
Paul Klee
Psychological problems occur when our internal signals don’t work, when our maps don’t lead us where we need to go, when we are too paralyzed to move.
Bessel van der Kolk
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
Bjorn Lomborg
Work on your strong qualities
and become resplendent like the ruby.
Practice self-denial and accept difficulty.
Always see infinite life in letting the self die.
Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow.
The signs of self-existence will leave your body,
and ecstasy will take you over.
Rumi
When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....
Charlize Theron
There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.
Tim Ferriss
When a proto-type—a new initiative—doesn't work, we face two alternatives: one is to bitch about reality and the other is to harvest the gift it just gave us, the knowledge of what has to be corrected.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
To love the perfection with which we do our work, or the company of those with whom we work, is the secret of learning to love the work itself.
John Lancaster Spalding
It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.
Paul Greengard
Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.
Northrop Frye
