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The WORK
by Byron Katie

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

Quotes by Byron Katie

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love what is.
- Byron Katie

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my intuition
will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea.
I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
- Jonas Salk

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin

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

Have convictions. Be friendly.
Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs.
Work as hard as they do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

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

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie