The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.
When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Your best work is your expression of yourself.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best _x000D_ work came out of it.
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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