Quotes on Work Done

I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

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.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines—habits—that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.