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“I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.”

Art Facts Work Painting Satisfaction Expected

Book:The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas

Source: The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas

“Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Persons Jobs Work Failing Position Ordinary Advantage Performances Organization Credit Expected Establishment Inherent Competence Competent

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.”

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.”

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Author:Niklaus Wirth

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

People Ifs Way Giving Use Might Natural Work Ability Tools Surprise Curiosity Expected Natural Ability

Author:Bill Gates

“Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.”

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Author:Robin Lane Fox