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“Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youve made too much of it, to remember it doesnt define you.”

Made Sometimes Remember Realizing Work Too Much Define You

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.”

Ifs Men Way I Can Hate Bits Work Pleasure Too Much Minutes Pride Arms Goes On Shots Tools I Hate Delight Strikes Clock Strokes Grindstone

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.”

Ifs World Giving Writing Soul Feelings Song Work Too Much Husband Giving Up Bother Performing My Husband

Author:Dolly Parton

“The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.”

Hard Work Too Much Meditation Masters Hard Work Return Walking Sitting Monasteries Walking Meditation Diminishing Returns

Book:Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.”

Firsts Littles Next Work Walks Business Company Too Much Doors Week Selling Replaced Next Time Networking Pointless Little Time Moron Untouchables Days Of The Week Backup Selling Yourself

Author:Corinne Maier

“Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.”

Knows Jobs Work Results Too Much Ambition Limitation Promotion

Author:Ricky Gervais

“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.”

Source: Pre-Raphaelitism

“I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”

“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

“Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!”

Inspirational Ends Dream Reality Given Work Results Education Struggle Too Much Inspirational Life Lessons Credit Recreation Dreams And Reality End Results

Author:Garth Brooks

“Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.”

“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

“But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.”

People Made Work Too Much Painting Lonely Being Lonely

Author:Marie Windsor

“Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.”

Source: A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem