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The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie

Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie

No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

Love what is.
- Byron Katie

Work Quotes and Sayings

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb

I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi

What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin

I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller

People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi

Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau

As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen

When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

By nature, we are all creatures of habit.
We instinctively adopt familiar routines for most activities.
We eat about the same number of meals each day -
at more or less the same times.
We have a regular pattern of sleeping -
unless it is perturbed by illness or shift work.
Most everything we do is habitual.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you don't enjoy your career,
today is the day to begin a long-term plan
for creating a career that interests and excites you.
And, in the short term, even if you hate your job,
look for small joys at work each day,
perhaps in your interactions with customers and co-workers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

All successful people men and women are big dreamers.
They imagine what their future could be,
ideal in every respect,
and then they work every day toward
their distant vision,
that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead

A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

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