Work Quotes

There is no need for comparison. Be happy with yourself and find satisfaction in your work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Another name for destiny is opportunity, once you miss it, your destiny is gone.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Find what you love to do, what you're good at and passionate about and then dedicate your entire life to working hard at it. I wil say it again. Work hard. I mean that. Even if you're not sure where that work will lead, even if it is underappreciated or undervalued. Do it because the satisfaction, pride, and sense of self that comes from a job well done; from being the very best at what you do; from knowing that you did this, will be your ulltimate weapon and our greatest shield in a life that will often test you. One day destiny may conspire to take everything away from you, but it can never take away the abilities you have cultivated. As I am sure your grandfather will tell you, your winning lottery ticket is your mind.

~ Amy Mowafi

The cards spoke to a suspicion that many whose work is play can never be free of: that you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

Mr. Lawrence drank from his beer. Do you know how I figure out what to do? I look under rocks for slime. I lick the slime with my own tongue. I see the problem for what it is, not what a consultant's methodology says it should be. I find people who are working on something that no one told them to work on, who solve a problem because they can't let it stay unsolved, who don't eat or bathe because it takes too much time. I find the ones selling their ideas to customers without going through the marketing department first. I've gotten good at picking molds off cheeses and turning them into penicillin. People used to wonder where my ideas came from. It was simple: I looked for slimy rocks and moldy cheese, and I watched the bank account like a hawk. It worked well for this company for a long time.

~ Charlie Close

It tugged at his soul not to talk to other writers about his work. He loved the bank, keeping it secure and compliant with the laws and regulations. People assumed these things happened by magic. They did not. Hauer never talked about it outside the office. He didn't want to make the other writers uncomfortable. If he developed a reputation as someone who brought his work with him to writers conferences they would all turn away, to sip and swizzle their drinks without him.

~ Charlie Close

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.

~ Johnny Rich

All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works.

~ Marty Rubin

It is appropriate to speak of the artisans as possessed of wisdom (and not just skill), because the biblical writers share the understanding common to most traditional societies that the active form of wisdom is good work. Wisdom does not consist only in sound intellectual work; any activity that stands in a consistently productive relationship to the material world and nurtures the creative imagination qualifies as wise.

~ Ellen F. Davis

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

~ Ryan Lilly

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Play is just another version of work

~ Ray Kurzweil

Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

~ Steve Krug

And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a sort of false pride--shyness--timorous modesty? I used to be afraid of falling in love with people--or having them think I was--that I was chasing them (how ridiculous--I am actually always running away!) but now surely--I should be mature enough to be over that. I am no longer afraid of falling in love, and the other false modesties should vanish. I cannot bear to think par delicatesse j'ai perdu ma vie. (Because of discretion I have lost my life).

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

we are continuing God’s work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and “unfold” creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God’s pattern of creative cultural development.

~ Timothy J. Keller

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody Allen famously declared that eighty percent of success is showing up. NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) teaches kids how to show up again and again.

~ Jonah Lehrer

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less.

~ Jonah Lehrer

Very rarely do the best things in life fall into our laps, we have to work for them.

~ Emilyann Girdner

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. One success is inherited, and the the next one is earned. While the last one is self-sought, self-served, and happens on its own terms.

~ Suzy Kassem

Work your craft, until it becomes an art from.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not worry about who get the credit or praise of the work done. Continue work to give your best.Your reward may come unexpected.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Team spirit promotes greater accomplishment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.

~ Abhishek Ratna

In another thirty to fifty years, the demand for cheap labor will have produced even more machines over the employment of actual humans. And in that time frame, humans will have lost their voice, their power, all freedoms, and all worth. It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.

~ Suzy Kassem

In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology.

~ Suzy Kassem

I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk.

~ Steven Magee

There are plenty of chances in life, what's important is what you make of them.

~ Katja Michael

You can work to create a bright future.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

~ Nikola Tesla

A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.

~ Amit Kalantri

I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

~ Gloria Whelan

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

~ Haruki Murakami

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.

~ Carl Honoré

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The presence of pain should not be the reason for your low self-image. Boldness is the ability to stand tall even when the valley seems deep. Your pain will bring gain. Just believe and go to work!

~ Israelmore Ayivor