Work Ethics Quotes

Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task. ~ David Heinemeier Hansson

I think my favorite role was playing Sarah Baker in 'Cheaper by the Dozen 1.' It was my first movie, and I worked with amazing professionals who had such strong work ethics that I immediately learned how to work in this industry. ~ Alyson Stoner

If you build software, every error message is marketing ~ Jason Fried

Work hard to achieve your dreams. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel. ~ Antoine Fuqua

While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business. ~ Jamshyd Godrej

People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

Longer hours don't equal better results. By getting the right people together, structuring the activities, and eliminating distraction, we've found that it's possible to make rapid progress while working a reasonable schedule. ~ Jake Knapp

Don't tell ever "Only I can do that work", tell always "I can do that work also ~ Chiranjit Paul

We wanted a labour force, but human beings came. ~ Terry Hayes

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'. ~ Danielle Steel

It's better to have people be happy using someone else's product than disgruntled using yours. ~ Jason Fried

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding. ~ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics. ~ Taylor Swift

What he likes most about proprietary trading is that it requires considerably less time than other high-paying professions; in other words it is perfectly compatible with his non-middle-class work ethic. Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics, Nero believes, draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self. ~ Big Sean

A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people's love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work. ~ Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Peaches found herself wondering if Mary, a tiny brunette with an unprepossessing manner and less than 'stellar' work ethics, had to play Where's Waldo to find Steve's dick beneath his gigantic waistline. ~ A.T. Hicks

Press Releases are spam ~ Jason Fried

I do not know what came first, the brown-nose worker or the arrogant boss; I simple hate it and I not be part of it. ~ Rodolfo Peon

Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch. ~ Jason Fried

Who are we if we can't keep the agreements we make with ourselves? ~ MeeK

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead. ~ Lance Morrow

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance. ~ Henry Giroux

Her work ethic was second to none. And by that I mean: if you made a list of all the levels of work ethics, hers would be just above "none". ~ Michael Schur

How you doing at 26 Fed?"
"I'm growing and learning, meeting new challenges with confidence and enthusiasm while developing good work ethics and people skills."
"I'm surprised they haven't fired your ass."
"Me too. ~ Nelson DeMille

What a great pleasure to work for your living? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers. ~ Samael Aun Weor

It's always easier to take something than work for it ... ~ Alexandra Bracken

Ben Says: Kids, In the game of life ... will it be the Hall Of Fame or The Hall Of Very Good? The choice is up to you. Education & work ethics will make the difference!
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben ~ Timothy Pina

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work. ~ Alanis Morissette

Miracles do happen, but you have to work hard at them. ~ Chaim Weizmann

You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard. ~ LaMarr Woodley

I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England. ~ Anton Corbijn

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch. ~ Nic Pizzolatto

We're depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves. ~ Julie Lythcott-Haims

I want to be known for the work I've done, as opposed to where I go on Saturday nights ... ~ Amanda Bynes

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence. ~ Marco Rubio

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue? ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost ... What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written. ~ Edward Ruscha

I try not to date where I work. It makes life easier. I don't say no to anybody because I'd hope that people wouldn't say no to me just because I'm an actor - but they'd have to be pretty extraordinary. ~ Anne Hathaway

These days I have to work twice as hard to look half as good. ~ Renee Yancy

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. ~ Julie Andrews Edwards

If someone reuses your video snippet, and that person's work incorporating yours is reused by yet a third party, you still get a micropayment from that third party. ~ Jaron Lanier

I was taught nothing about the suffragettes in school. The version I eventually got was mainly about the peaceful campaigning of the constitutional suffragists. Their work was vital, but there was this other, not widely known story of the women who risked everything, who were prepared to break every taboo. ~ Sarah Gavron

Faith to me is a form of self-expression, like a work of art, a manifestation of freedom, not a tool for mindless conformity. ~ Sahar El-Nadi

I have been told that when a baby bird is ready to hatch, if you break the egg for the bird, it will die. The bird must peck its own way out of the egg into the world. This aggressive "workout" strengthens the bird, allowing it to function in the outside world. Robbed of this responsibility, it will die. This is also the way God has made us. If he "hatches" us, does our work for us, invades our boundaries, we will die. We must not shrink back passively. Our boundaries can only be created by our being active and aggressive, by our knocking, seeking, and asking ~ Henry Cloud

In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom. ~ Ian McKellen

The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury - so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder. ~ Wilbur Smith

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that. ~ Anne-Marie Slaughter

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum. ~ Wade Guyton

No other system of economic organizing rewards merit, hard work and creativity the way Capitalism does. ~ Hendrith Smith

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals. ~ Charles Darwin

Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems, including the ideas and feelings they want to communicate to each other. ~ Melody Beattie

It becomes one who is called to be a soldier, and to go a warfare, to endeavor to excel in the art of war. It becomes one who is called to be a mariner, and to spend his life in sailing the ocean, to endeavor to excel in the art of navigation. It becomes one who professes to be a physician, and devotes himself to that work, to endeavor to excel in the knowledge of those things which pertain to the art of physic. So it becomes all such as profess to be Christians, and to devote themselves to the practice of Christianity, to endeavor to excel in the knowledge of divinity. ~ Jonathan Edwards

I'd have your back off-site too, if you'd let me." ~Cain, Ghost of You ~ Kelly Moran

The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a body of work that got recognized and became an archetype. ~ Robert Longo

Today it is imperative that any distinction or division should be overcome, because the choice between saving the world and changing it is a false one. They are intimately related, the work of redemption and the work of restoration. ~ Michael White

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book. ~ Beverly Cleary

Children's novels...spoke and still speak of hope. They say: look, this is what bravery looks like. This is what generosity looks like. They tell me, through the medium of wizards and lions and talking spiders, that this world we live in is a world of people who tell jokes and work and endure. Children's books say: the world is huge. They say: hope counts for something. They say: bravery will matter, wit will matter, empathy will matter, love will matter. These things may or may not be true. I do not know. I hope they are. ~ Katherine Rundell

For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It's something quite natural for me to go on the court and suffer, and to go in the gym and to suffer, and to know the only way to get better is to work out - that's what I like. ~ Stanislas Wawrinka

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument. ~ George Steiner

I know that in order for something to work for me it has to be extremely powerful. ~ Ronnie Coleman

There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity. ~ Nenia Campbell

You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough. ~ Sam Walton

I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that. ~ Bryan Cogman

Wide reading is important. You don't have to like it, but it's important to grapple with things you don't understand. I've been spending the last six months getting up an hour early to try to understand economics because I need to. I don't want to be one of these bewildered schmucks. The things that you understand will inform your writing. The bigger your mind, the better your work is going to be. You're not born with a big mind; you have to build it. If I don't read for an hour a day, I get ill. ~ Jeanette Winterson

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests. ~ Susan Rice

But every effort to make this work in practice at any scale failed, largely because the social bonds that police such mutual aid tend to fray when the size of the group exceeds 150 (termed the "Dunbar number" - the empirically observed limit at which the members of a human community can maintain strong links with one another). ~ Chris Anderson

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. ~ Henry David Thoreau

In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies. ~ John Gresham Machen

Making another effort to be paradoxical, Williams decides to identify Orwell as an instance of 'the paradox of the exile'. This, which he also identified with D. H. Lawrence, constituted an actual 'tradition', which, in England:

attracts to itself many of the liberal virtues: empiricism, a certain integrity, frankness. It has also, as the normally contingent virtue of exile, certain qualities of perception: in particular, the ability to distinguish inadequacies in the groups which have been rejected. It gives, also, an appearance of strength, although this is largely illusory. The qualities, though salutary, are largely negative; there is an appearance of hardness (the austere criticism of hypocrisy, complacency, self-deceit), but this is usually brittle, and at times hysterical: the substance of community is lacking, and the tension, in men of high quality, is very great.

This is quite a fine passage, even when Williams is engaged in giving with one hand and taking away with the other. Orwell's working title for Nineteen Eighty-Four was 'The Last Man in Europe,' and there are traces of a kind of solipsistic nobility elsewhere in his work, the attitude of the flinty and solitary loner. May he not be valued, however, as the outstanding English example of the dissident intellectual who preferred above all other allegiances the loyalty to truth? Self-evidently, Williams does not believe this and the clue is in the one word, so seemingly innocuous in itself, ~ Christopher Hitchens

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn't matter if you're going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25) ~ Stephen Levine

You're a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by a mind that travels with the body. The work never stops. ~ Bruce Obee