Work Quotes

"It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?"

Once you decide on your occupation, you must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work. Never complain about your job. You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That is the secret of success and is the key to being regarded honorably.

results are more important than the time it takes to achieve them.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top

Sometimes you gotta work a little so you can ball a lot.

It’s never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

Do not chase people. Be you and do your own thing and work hard. The right people who belong in your life will come to you and stay.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done

If you don't have experience, find creativity.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

My ideas come often not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die

When you go and finish a project which takes months and years to write and edit there are a million people who will always say that they like what you wrote but would have done this or would have changed that. I always politely listen to them and think, "No you wouldn't have, because you didn't." An author needs a reader but it's definitely a hate-love relationship.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Adam helped me find the courage to make a leap of faith, to leave behind everything I knew and start over, guided by nothing more than a passion for something...He had a kind of comical inability to understand why you wouldn't follow your dreams if you knew what they were. I mean, look -- all he wanted to do was make music, and he did that and it all worked out for him just fine.

is this all what it lead up to? come out the gate rowdy and fightin’….and then gain spiritual enlightenment down the line?

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

Actually, I don't think of myself as being inspired to create. I can't imagine doing anything else. It's like breathing.

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.