“I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.”
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“Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.”
“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”
“We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.”
“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”
“People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.”
“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”
“I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.”
“I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.”
“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
“The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.”
“You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.”
“You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.”
“Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.”
“So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.”
“The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.”
“If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.”
“My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.”
“The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.”
“When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.”
“Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.”
“America is at that awkward stage it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”
“When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.”
“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”