Working Quotes

“Instead of working too hard, if the person had taken good care of his health and lived a long life, he would certainly have served his purpose better.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“You know that if you want to become a master, you have to spend hours every day working on the same movements.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Sometimes the loss from taking a wrong action is less than the loss from taking no action.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“There’s the old saying, ‘Actions speak louder than words.’ If that’s true (and I believe it is), maybe our first action should be to shut up, our second action should be to step up, and our third action should be to never give up doing either of the above.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Just because we're busy doesn't mean we're being productive. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

“The Less I Say The More My Work Gets Done.”
― Elton John

“Yet even in the best of cases, the need to be on call, to spend at least a certain amount of energy looking over one's shoulder, maintaining a false front, never looking too obviously engrossed, the inability to fully collaborate with others —all this lends itself much more to a culture of computer games, YouTube rants, memes, and Twitter controversies than to, say, the rock 'n' roll bands, drug poetry, and experimental theater created under the midcentury welfare state.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“How is ignoring me working out for you?”
― Steven Magee

“A life spent at one's desk is a life alone.”
― Donna Tartt

“If you keep working at it, if you keep moving forward, you will achieve what you want.”
― Leigh Shulman

“I don’t like my job but my job likes me.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“Some people wait for that big breakthrough,
while other people WORK for that big breakthrough. Which one are you?”
― Jeanette Coron

“Working requires being in the present time! So, if you want to be in the present, work!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Either you work or you rot!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Working for a husband and wife ran business is nearly as tricky as navigating a sailing ship while battling the forces of high wind and strong current. It is challenging to work for a husband wife team because they can offset each other’s virtues and magnify their vices.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Preparation for a journey is little more than being in ‘love’ with the idea of adventure. But being ‘committed’ to the idea of adventure means actually getting up and walking. And that might explain why our shoes seldom wear out.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Working to earn, spending to enjoy, eating, sleeping and marital sex, define the needs of oneself; in other words, the moral selfishness. Conversely, working, spending, enjoying, providing food and shelter for others, execute humanity and love, in other words, moral dignity.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“She added in a tight, defensive voice that she panicked when she did jobs, it gave her existential panic. She could do them for a while, but it felt like darning socks in a burning building. Time was running out and . . . Did he ever get that?”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“Find something that gets you rock hard, and you'll never have to work another day in your life.”
― Trevor Carss

“You get the best photos, the best literature, the best poems, the best art while working for your own pleasure with your own inner peace!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“For those that are working in government departments that are engaging in frauds, you deserve to be ruled by evil people for facilitating it.”
― Steven Magee

“In the near future men will wonder how Mr. Spencer, "the philosopher" of the nineteenth century, could have allowed his devotion to the bourgeoisie to so cloud his morality (for we cannot believe that it was his judgment that was at fault) as to cause him to say that the rich supported the poor. How do they do it? By standing by and seeing the poor work, taking away all their products, and giving back to the workers just sufficient to keep them in working order,—in many cases not even as much as that ...”
― Frank H Brooks, The Individualist Anarchists: Anthology of Liberty, 1881-1908

“Argi galima be paliovos lėkt, amžinai bijant netekti pragyvenimo šaltinio, amžinai nertis iš kailio, kad įrodytum esąs kažko vertas? Pasaulis darosi nežmoniškas...”
― Tracy Rees, The Hourglass

“So we hold endless meetings, everyone is consulted, we discuss everything, and eventually we reach a consensus. Sometimes we even make a decision.
Then we go and have a good moan about it all.”
― Kate Fox, Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour

“I was severely under-informed about the known toxicity of the very high altitude Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) and what working there does to long term health.”
― Steven Magee

“If you are vulnerable to gender issues, working or living at high altitudes may bring on Gender Dysphoria (GD).”
― Steven Magee

“It was only when I stopped working with electricity that I realized that electromagnetic exposures had been routinely triggering my mating cycle.”
― Steven Magee

“A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness.”
― Steven Magee

“We never used any form of respiratory protection when working with solvents at very high altitude atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.”
― Steven Magee

“Hallucinations are a known aspect of working at very high altitudes.”
― Steven Magee