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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.
If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it's very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.
Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.
I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I'm not doing better.
I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.
I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.
We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.
I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned. You have to have that mindset that you have to work every single day. Learn every single day.
To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.
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.
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.
It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.
You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.
There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.
I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.
Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.
The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.