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“It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.”

Needs Done Work Emotion

Book:Last of the Breed

Source: Last of the Breed

“It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.”

Needs Mind May Mean Work Pleasure Intervals

Book:Amid these storms: thoughts and adventures

Source: Amid these storms: thoughts and adventures

“Work like you don't need the money.”

“We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”

Men Needs Done Wisdom Work Quality Courage Virtue Iron Rough Resolution Manhood Shrinking True Man Indomitable Indomitable Will

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life

“A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Needs Feels Persons Long Found Work Danger Goes On Safe Formulas Better Ways Deteriorating Found The One

Book:Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

“Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?”

Men Needs Has Beens Soul Water Work Situation Struggle Demand Tragic Significance Comes And Goes Renounce

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.”

Needs Giving Helping Work Charity Generosity Making A Difference Giving To Charity Charity And Giving Generosity And Giving Your Generosity Joy Of Giving True Generosity

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.”

Needs Doe Work Pieces Finished Concentration

Author:Maya Angelou

“Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.”

Needs Jobs Work Months Training Interviews

Book:How To Survive From Nine To Five

Source: How To Survive From Nine To Five

“Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.”

Needs Stills Done Work Teacher Enlightenment Commitment Add Recognition

Book:Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

Source: Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

“The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.”

Ifs Needs Real Work Ready Bears Scientist Starvation

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.”

Men Needs America Work Pay Mines Revolution Training Doctors Machines Income Farming Mills Landlord Automation Grocers

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.”

“Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that children didn't need them much. Mothers, who might be too soft and sentimental, could even be bad for children's character development. But when men left home during the Industrial Revolution to work elsewhere, women were "needed" at home. The cult of domesticity and motherhood became a virtue that kept women in their place.”

“The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.”

Needs Country Political Politics Women Work Needed

Author:Judith Ellen Foster

“My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else. If they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.”

Ifs Men World Needs Giving Trying Able Earth Courses Community Work Principles Taught Benefits Contrary Pursue Ruins Clothings Idlers

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Set up a life you don't need to escape from.”

Inspirational Needs Work Tribes Ingenious Need A Vacation Getting Through Life

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.”

Needs Father Waiting Work Dad Calm Weather Farms Farmers Harvest Fatherhood Farming Sowing Bad Weather

Author:Miguel Indurain

“We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.”

“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.”

Needs Done Work Technology Easier Computer Witty Programming Programmers Information Technology Hardware Computer Programmers Computer Technology Computer Software Funny Computer Computer Systems Computer Hacking

Author:Andy Rooney

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

Source: As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport: The View from the End of the Road : Comments and Comic Pieces

“I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.”

Needs Lost Work Deals Firm Life Changing Overwhelming Stressful Constancy

Author:Richard Nelson Bolles

“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”

Men Needs Belief Work Holiday Vacation Criminal Mind Inspirational Vacation Best Holiday Vacation Time Best Vacation Great Holiday Need A Vacation

Book:This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays

Source: This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.”

World Inspirational Needs Lying Work Business Talent Crosses Vocation

Author:Aristotle

“The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.”

Needs Art Hard Artist Work Produce Works Of Art Great Work Great Artist Being Good Enough

Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.”

Ifs Way Needs Should Motivational Motivation Girl Work Boys Inspire Occupation Human Resources Boy And Girl Inspired To Work

Author:William Lyon Phelps

“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive”

“I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.”

Needs Believe Kind I Can I Believe Work Relation Guilt Charity Work Out I Believe In Philanthropy Because I Can Public Relations Philanthropic Philanthropy Giving

Author:George Soros

“We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work.”

Needs Hope Work Remove Vocabulary Unworthy

Book:The Measure of Our Hearts

Source: The Measure of Our Hearts

“Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.”

Ifs Want Needs Wells May Today Force Work Brain Economic Personality Integrity Program Radio Charm

Author:Gracie Allen

“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.”

People Thinking World Needs Wells May Has Beens Done Success Order Three Work Too Much Needed Fit Testimony Three Things Doubtful Confirmation

Author:W. H. Auden

“The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.”

World Needs Work Modern Morality Slavery Slave Modern World Modern Slavery

Book:In Praise of Idleness

Source: In Praise of Idleness

“What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.”

“The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.”

Needs Important Action Work Education Knowledge Learning Teacher Students Experience Perceive Good Work Effective Teacher

Author:Stephen Brookfield

“Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.”

Men Want Needs Giving Made Today Work Prayer Decision Morning Easier Sight Bases Temptation Breakthrough Accompany

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.”

Needs God Hours Religious Work Prayer Secret Struggle Our Lives Praying Letting Go Midst Daily Life Theologian Solemn Grind Knocking Daily Work Admittance Daily Grind Daily Struggle

Author:Ole Hallesby

“One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.”

People Needs Giving Feels Action Work Movement Greatness Lifetime Satisfied Commit Educated Philanthropy Giving Money

Author:Peter Drucker

“Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.”

Want Needs Giving Littles Hard Might Work Results Effort Hard Work Extras Convenient Best Work Gymnastics Inconvenient Hard Work Pays Off Extra Effort

Author:Peter Vidmar

“In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.”

People Needs Wells Together Work Losing Capacity Anger Angry Greed Encounters Daily Life Satisfying Distrust Deceitful Pettiness Trust Issues

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.”

Needs Hard Work Hard Work Luck Jet Nobel Serendipity Bmw Private Jet Professorship

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.”

Needs Wells May Motivational Work Sleep Health Exercise Work Out Plenty Live By Fitness Cheerful Need You Massage Hurrying Fitness Motivational Healing The Body

Author:James Freeman Clarke

“The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.”

Needs Mean Work Business Masters Vices Productions Corporations Servant Employee Vice Versa

Book:The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management

Source: The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management

“I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.”

People Needs Belief Work Business Support Wonderful Belive Support Me

Author:Kathy Ireland

“Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.”

Needs Work Views Prove Busy Witty Proof

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend.”

“Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.”

Needs Believe Can Do Work Deals Business Favors Believe In Yourself Believe In You Belive Belief In Yourself Inspirational Believe In Yourself

Author:Ivana Trump

“When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.”

Needs Done Action Work Memorable Architect Fewer Things Done Getting Things Done Bricklayers

Author:Colleen Barrett

“Vision is easy. It's so easy to just point to the bleachers and say I'm going to hit one over there. What's hard is saying, OK, how do I do that? What are the specific programs, what are the commitments, what are the resources, what are the processes we need in play to go implement the vision, turn it into a working model that people follow every day in the enterprise. That's hard work.”

People Needs Hard Play Turns Easy Process Work Vision Hard Work Models Commitment Resources Program Enterprise Bleachers Saying Ok

Author:Lou Gerstner

“When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.”