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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.
The greatness of work is inside man.
Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.
Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
Work isn't a four letter word.
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
Without work men are utterly undone.
Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.
Work impressively.
Work imaginatively.
Work intuitively.
Work indomitably.
Work is not about survival alone
The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.
Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
I don't like work
no man does
but I like what is in the work
the chance to find yourself. Your own reality
for yourself not for others
what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.
Working hours of a diligent man are not limited.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
We must make working life more human.
A diligent man spends his time in constant work.
Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.
When it comes to work, there are many who will stop at nothing.
Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.
The concept of work should be understood diligently
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
When you work in alignment with who you are, it's not work.
Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.
I'm pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.
Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
It is a rare person who is naturally inclined to sit still for sixteen years in school, and then indefinitely at work, yet with the dismantling of high school shop programs
A man who works with his hands is a labourer. A man who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. A man who works with his haands, his head, and his heart is an artist.
I live, like every real man, in my work.
In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.
We work and that is godlike.
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.
The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
On an opponent:He loves the working man. He loves to see him work.
I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
Strong believer in doing what needs to get done.
I don't want to portray myself as a hardman in management or anything like that.
When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.
The ability of mental concentration, as well as the absolutely essential feeling of obligation to one's job, are here most often combined with a strict economy which calculates the possibility of high earnings, and a cool self-control and frugality which enormously increase performance.
I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
No one aspires to be the working man. Everyone aspires to be The Man.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. Rock is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ass off, you know.
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.
When you have to work, work with a smile.
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
Work is dignity.
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.
Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.
I define workaholism as an obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifests itself through self-imposed demands, an inability to regulate work habits, and overindulgence in work to the exclusion of most other life activities.
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work.
This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
I'm a workin' girl.
When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.
But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!
Not what he pleases, but what he can.
Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
Work with enthusiasm.
I think I'm a workaholic, but I'm a workaholic that is loving his work.
Work is easy when it's full of meaning and shared with others.
Working hard, working smart
Today's ideal worker is not the anonymous shift worker but the enlightened genius who never stops working.
When men assimilate themselves to machines and value only the consequences of their work, not the work itself, style disappears, to be replaced by something which to the mechanised man appears more natural, though in fact is only more brutal.
Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.
The man who uses his hands is a laborer. The man who uses his mind is a master. But the man who gives his heart to the passion is a craftsman.
The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.
A man perfects himself by working.
Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.
Remember your created limits. So much of workaholism is a defiance of the physical limitations that God our creator has imposed upon us.
I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.
I'm a bit of a workaholic.
Work is my recreation,
The play of faculty; a delight like that
Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish
In darting through the water,
Nothing more.
The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.
Mediocre work stutters, good work whispers, great work speaks, but extraordinary work shouts.
I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.