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Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
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 know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.
"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
I'm confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key… I'm strict about my work goals and training.
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.
The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
In the democratic way of life it is not the best things in life are free, but rather the best things in life are worth working for!
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.
He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.
His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.
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.
Work hard, be honest, help people, never give up, love your fellow man and woman, give back to society, and don't ever discriminate.
At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.