Work And Life Quotes:

But being honest in my work and life has kind of set me free. I'm so much more than my pain. Oh my god, I sound like my therapist! Call her, she can vouch that I'm doing great.

- Jessie Kahnweiler

source: "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

topic: Pain, Sound, Work And Life

A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.

- Tom Hodgkinson

topic: Idlers, Work And Life, Slavery

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

- Drew Barrymore

topic: Balance, Work And Life, Lines, Blurry

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Self, Careers, Career Development, Career Motivation

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Careers, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Father, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspirational Passion

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

- Evan Williams

topic: Sleep, Exercise, Long, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Careers, Balance, Politics, Professional Career, Work Life Balance

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

- Lily Tomlin

source: Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Truism, Light Of My Life

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Daily Work, True Believer

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs

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

- Thomas A. Edison

source: "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Make Me Feel Better, Makin Money

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Last Day, Innovation Inspiration

Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

- Gary W. Keller

topic: Integrity, Glasses, Balance, Bounce, Juggling

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

- Michelle Obama

source: "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Jobs, Women, Eye, Better Jobs, Work And Life Balance

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

- Steve Blank

topic: Father, Balance, Gone, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Jobs, Lists, Needs, Better Jobs, Work Life Balance

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

- Alain de Botton

source: Twitter post from Oct 14, 2015

topic: Fighting, Balance, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance, Work Family

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Change, Yoga, New Beginnings, Change Is Inevitable, Will Power

Work and life are an interconnected adventure, guided by the heart, winged with spirit, and nourished by the soul.

- Ron Rubin

topic: Spiritual, Heart, Adventure, Work And Life

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

- Robin Leach

topic: Food, Wine, Add, Delicious Food, Food And Wine

The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

- Douglas Rushkoff

source: "Living In The Present Is A Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

topic: Home, Technology, Ideas, Cyberpunk, Digital Technology

Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example -- it is the world's best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem. That means at times we'll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.

- Satya Nadella

source: "Microsoft's CEO Sent Out A Giant Manifesto To Employees About The Future Of The Company" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 10, 2014.

topic: Party, Mean, Phones, Nokia, Work And Life

There is no one who has ever created music with the combination of intelligence, intuition, depth, creativity, and humor that Jerry Garcia has. His work and life will continue to be a limitless source of inspiration for all of us.

- Bruce Hornsby

topic: Inspiration, Creativity, Intuition, Source Of Inspiration, Work And Life

The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit.

- Lawren Harris

topic: Beauty, Artist, Men, Work And Life

It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

- Dana Fox

topic: Balance, Work And Life

When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.

- Thomas Dreier

topic: Life, Hurt, Thinking, Longer Life, Ailments

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Jobs, Real, Mind, Blocked, Best Intentions

The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.

- Christian Wiman

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Work And Life