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“We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.”

Life Mind Hands Action Work Higher Details Daily Life Habitual Effortless Higher Power Power Of The Mind Custody

Book:Psychology: The Briefer Course

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.”

World Life Needs Doe Life Is Heaven Work Hell Return Satisfaction This Life Despise Bores Bores You

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.”

Life Stories Work Our Lives Produce Passing Passings Relays Passing It

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.”

Life Wells Doe Stills Work Masters Ought Honor Glory Soldier Possession Workmen Precious Possessions

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V

“Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.”

“The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”

Wisdom Work Pride Glory Lust Lions Wrath Glory Of God Goats Bounty Peacock

Author:William Blake

“He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.”

Work Simplicity Idleness Aptitude

Author:Louise Wilder

“The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.”

“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.”

Firsts Looks Art Work Originals Ugly Originality Original Art

Book:Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Previously Unpublished Debate with Clement Greenberg

Source: Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Previously Unpublished Debate with Clement Greenberg

“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.”

Knows Art Language Work Generations Unconscious Massive Linguistics Linguists Inclusiveness Culture And Language

Book:Language

Source: Language

“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.”

Funny Jobs Work Morning Trouble Minutes Wake Up Jobless Unemployment

Author:Slappy White

“To make headway, improve your head.”

Work Habit

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.”

“They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.”

Sometimes Funny Work Climbs Climbing Mountaineering Mountain Climbing Climbing Mountain Rock Climbing Inspirational Mountain Climbing Climbing Mountains Inspirational

Author:Casey Stengel

“Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

Men Can Do Work Ordinary Machines Extraordinary Dozen Computing Ordinary Man

Author:E. B. White

“Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.”

Done Order Work Secret

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.”

Moments Christian Religious Work Becoming Lifetime Christian Inspirational Ministers Baptists Christian Service

Author:Billy Graham

“The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse.”

People Ifs World Happens Jobs Work Worst Surgery Worst Things Pulse Dead People

Author:Dennis Miller

“Wherever work is done, victory is attained.”

Done Work Victory

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.”

Ifs Success Energy Work Results Harder Uplifting I've Learned New Year Consistency Work Harder Motivational Work

Author:Louis C. K.

“If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it”

Ifs Wells Enjoy Work Neglect Dislike

Author:Philip Sidney

“You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world”

Knows World Work Achieve College

Book:Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs

Source: Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs

“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.”

Knows Men Life Heart Doe Enjoy Work Idle Idleness Follow Your Heart Lazy Man

Author:Albert Einstein

“I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.”

Humans Done Jobs Work Too Much Focus Missing Aspect Connections Caught Freak Listeners Caught Up Control Freak Good Listener

Author:Howard Stern

“I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.”

People Writing I Can Lost Fun Enjoy Work Focus Produce Conversation Endless Nothing New

Author:Ken Wilber

“We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social policies with an enabling environment for private initiative to create market opportunities for Decent Work.”

Needs Opportunity Social Work Environment Focus Economic Policy Authority Decent Spheres Initiative Enabling Proactive Social Policy Decent Work

Author:Juan Somavia

“It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered. The results: an exponentially increased ability to tune up / reinvent / WOW-ize today's project at work.”

“Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.”

World Love Work Love You Inspire Workers What You Love Love Your Work

Author:Uri Geller

“Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.”

“The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.”

Thinking Action Nations Work Curse Immediate Action

Author:Ezra Pound

“In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.”

Life Real Hours Work Pleasure Effort Support Trouble Doctrine Sufficient Plus Quantity Superstitions Idleness Life Happiness Pernicious Minus

Author:Arthur Balfour

“We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?”

Source: Future Primitive Revisited

“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.”

Way Done Seems Work Tasks Best Way Statistics Avoiding Employed Urgent

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not...”

Work Effort Steps Learning Taste Mathematics Instinct Worthy Math Mathematical Statistics Mathematician Every Step Good Taste Tact

Author:James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

“All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.”

Work Intellectual Improvement Arise Statistics Leisure

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.”

Men Work Comfortable Providing Livelihood Better Man Assessing

Author:Nelson Algren

“If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Bigs Motivation Work Lifetime Accomplished Think Big

Author:Wes Jackson

“Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.”

Men Want Home Values Women Work Careers Share Fairness Trust Me Opinionated Life Partner Leaning In Ambitious Women

Book:Lean In for Graduates

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.”

World Use Women Voice Work Careers Expectations Bullying Aggression Better Place Leaning In

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“One works without thinking how to work.”

Thinking Work

Book:Jasper Johns working proofs

Source: Jasper Johns working proofs

“Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.”

Soul Work Sea Ocean Ambition Fruit Seeking Peril My Ambition Great Ambition

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.”

Want Mean Three Work Money Good Friend You Like It Good Money

Author:William Shakespeare

“PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.”

Littles Art Work Sun Photography Photograph Instruction Cheyenne

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

Has Beens Age Wanted Funny Work Vision Growing Six Ambition Seven Witty Cooks My Ambition Age And Youth Life Ambition

Author:Salvador Dali

“The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.”

Art Ends Past Work Wise Works Of Art Loose Ends

Author:Max Beerbohm

“All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.”

Life Art Made Matter Nature Work Painting No Matter What Paint Following Painter Trifles

Author:Caravaggio

“We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Religious Work Lord Becoming Forgotten Editors Trust In God Preacher Mentor Pastor Commitment To God Servant Of God Greatness Of God Following Jesus

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.”

Thinking God Spiritual Can Do Religious Work Power Wrong Preacher Pastor Spiritual Power Spiritual Work

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.”

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