Browsing Quotes With Tag: work (68)
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Speaker: Arnold J. ToynbeePosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
Speaker: Evan EsarPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Speaker: Alfred A. MontapertPosted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
Speaker: Ralph CharellSource: CareerOnePosted: 12 Oct 2008 at 6:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 01 Oct 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
Speaker: SenecaSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most endeavors are like learning to speak a foreign language: to be correct 95% of the time requires six months of concentrated effort, whereas to be correct 98% of the time requires 20-30 years. Focus on great for a few things and good enough for the rest. Perfection is a good ideal and direction to have, but recognize it for what it is: an impossible destination.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What a man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
Speaker: Viktor FranklSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Speaker: Anatole FranceSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Speaker: Robert FrostSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Speaker: Woodrow WilsonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Love of bustle is not industry.
Speaker: SenecaSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive.Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
Speaker: GoethePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The highest possible reward for any man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
Speaker: John RuskinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.
Speaker: J.H. PattersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!