Favorite Quotations
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Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning Do all our work as though you had a thousand years to live on earth, as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow. ~ Ann Lee Real success is finding your life’s work in the work that you love. ~ David McCullough Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. ~ Henry J. Kaiser Whether for life or death, do your own work well. ~ John Ruskin Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~ Buddha There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~ William J. Bennett We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics. ~ Steven Van Zandt, A.V.Club, 6/7/06 I make beanstalks; I’m a builder like yourself. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery. ~ Maxim Gorky Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it “tap dancing to work.” ~ Bill Gates, This I Believe
"There's no labor a man can do that's undignified--if he does it right." ~ Bing Crosby