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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
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
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
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When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
- Jack London
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
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
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
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
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
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Without this playing with fantasy,
no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of
the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
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
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man is relieved and gay when he has
put his heart into his work and done his best;
but what he has said or done otherwise
shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
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
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
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
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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