Working Life Quotes - Page 2

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

  Evan Williams

  Balance, Work And Life, Our Relationship

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Careers, Balance, Work And Life

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• A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Dream, Determination, Work

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• I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.

  Tim Waterstone

  Leadership, Believe, People

  Tim Waterstone (2013). “Swimming Against the Stream: Creating Your Business and Making Your Life”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

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• Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

  Giles Andreae

  Years, Enough, More Money

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• I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

  Andrew Lincoln

  Pretending, Pretending To Be Someone Else

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

  Emma Thompson

  Two, People, Awful

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• Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time
  making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

  Herbert Hoover

  Government, People, Soul

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.162, Stanford University Press

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• We must make working life more human.

  Goran Persson

  Humans

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• It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.

  Alain de Botton

  Atheist, People, Priorities

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• Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Mentor, Mines

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• If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.

  Anita Roddick

  Art, Creative, Looks

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• My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

  Al Franken

  Dad, School, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Goal, Target

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

  Alan Rickman

  Lucky, Theater, Ifs

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• I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

  Yann Martel

  Men, Ties, Careful

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

  Paul Theroux

  Revenge, Party, Home

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

  David Nicholls

  Speech, Moments, Henry V

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• A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

  Stephen Fry

  Careers, Heaven, Training

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.72, The Overlook Press

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• I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

  Iain Banks

  Cutting, Trying, Hitting

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• Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lonely, Art, Past

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

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• A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm

  John Naughton

  Loyalty, Powerful, Intelligent

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• May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Music, Dream, Thinking

  James Joseph Sylvester, H. F. Baker (2012). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester:”, p.419, Cambridge University Press

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• Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
  By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,
  While better men than we go out, and start their working lives
  By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Weed, Men, Garden

  1911 'The Glory of the Garden'.

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