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The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Love what is.
- Byron Katie
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Ought-To Need-To Tango:
I am racked with the guilt and the pain of I should,
and I ought, and I can't, but I must.
I can't rest; I can't sleep; I'm just not understood,
and I hate that the world is unjust.
I have work; I have woes; I have troubles for life;
but I don't have a ME that I trust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
The difference between work and play lies 100%
in the attitude of the participant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon,
it will be an entire nation.
For all of us must work to put him there.
- John F. Kennedy
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my intuition
will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea.
I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
- Jonas Salk
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.
- Lao Tzu
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
We believe that if men have the talent
to invent new machines that put men out of work,
they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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