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“If you can create work that enhances your life...do it! But most people, sadly, lose their lives on their work...unnecessarily.”

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“People say that they work to make money to have more time later to do what they want…only to find out that the same work they do gives them less time. There's a better way.”

Time Work Money Time Tipping

Author:Richie Norton

“It is more important to live the life one wishes to live, and to go down with it if necessary, quite contentedly, than to live more profitably but less happily.”

Work Inspire Goals In Life Inspired Living

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“Witnessing all of those hardworking female street vendors in Vietnam also made me understand why my mom felt so passionate about me and my sisters working. While we were in Vietnam together, she explained that the country had a history of always being in wartime, so women were expected to rise to the occasion of making money for the family. Vietnamese women were always ready to take over roles traditionally filled by men, Like A League of Their Own (but where everyone is Marla Hooch). I also understood why my mom wasn't into processing her feelings, and how she was taught to just get over tragedy. To survive, she had to believe things like depression and allergies were a choice. In a culture entrenched in wartime, those who chose to be unhappy or to refuse gluten didn't last long.”

Feelings Work Depression Emotions Survive Wartime Allergies

Book:Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

Source: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

“The downside is that your workers are working harder and having to concentrate more, and the accidents they have are just a little worse, just a little more frequent. The trouble is that you can’t go back, because now your competitors have done the same thing and the Thingumabob market has gotten a bit more aggressive, and the question comes down to this: how much further can you squeeze the margin without making your factory somewhere no one will work? And the truth is that it’s a tough environment for unskilled workers in your area and it can get pretty bad. Suddenly, because the company can’t survive any other way, soft-hearted Alf Fingermuffin is running the scariest, most dangerous factory in town. Or he’s out of busines...”

Work Productivity Corporate Culture Production Factory Workers

Book:The Gone-Away World

Source: The Gone-Away World

“I need to get back to the office. Those windows won't stare out themselves all afternoon.”

Humor Work Boredom

Book:The Heart's Invisible Furies

Source: The Heart's Invisible Furies

“Persist. Even when you’re heavy with emotion, pick yourself up bringing the axe of your actions down, repeatedly chopping at the day until you bring the sun low with success.”

Success Work Sun Tree Persistence Keep Going Dream Big Pick Yourself Up Shoot For The Moon Axe

Author:Curtis Tyrone Jones

“There are myriad ways to make money, yet regardless of how much you’re paid, how and why you get paid dictates your lifestyle.”

Happiness Work Money Paid Lifestyle Meaning Business Model Dictate Myriad Pay Day

Author:Richie Norton

“I am past that stage where one feels sleepy at work after lunch. Now I feel unconscious.”

Work Unconscious Sleepy

Author:Nitya Prakash

“Before long, machines would be doing all the work. This would free up “abundant scope for recreation,” enthused an English professor, “by immersion in the imaginative life, in art, drama, dance, and a hundred other ways of transcending the constraints of daily life.”

Work Daily Life Leisure Imaginative

Book:Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Source: Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“He watched the villagers at their work and tried to get to know their ways: how they made their stores and divided them for consumption, how they bred their animals and made tools for the field, plows, harrows, rakes, shovels, as well as weapons, tubs, baskets and the like. He watched them making repairs and improving their houses with saws, hammers, and axes, or bringing wood to their homes by the easier method of using sleighs, or satisfying the other necessities of life in their few trades.”

Work Peasants Farming Tools

Book:Witiko

Source: Witiko