Quotes About Being Present At Work

#1. Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.

Alexander Kjerulf

#2. Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness
the feeling that someone is trying to think about us
something we want more than praise?

Stephen Grosz

#3. Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

Kadir Nelson

#4. I loved mornings on the island. Fucking loved them. Emphasis on fucking.

Shay Savage

#5. Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it's so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they're going to vote.

Rick Santorum

#6. Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

Guido Van Rossum

#7. CORPORAL BURKE GRINNED, no humor in his expression but plenty of satisfaction as he jammed the throttle of the M7 Abrams main battle tank, flattening the tiny import in front of him to a mashed pulp as he rumbled over it.

Evan Currie

#8. Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Lope De Vega

#9. In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

John Malkovich

#10. The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

John Bayley

#11. Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!

Chuck Spezzano

#12. Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Isaac Watts

#13. If female sexuality is muted compared to that of men, then why must men the world over go to extreme lengths to control and contain it?

Barbara Smuts

#14. I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

Chris Pine

#15. To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

Claude Debussy

#16. I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

Teju Cole

#17. In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

Marcus Aurelius

#18. I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.

Charlaine Harris

#19. It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Charles De Lint

#20. The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

John Zachary Young

#21. When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Alexa Von Tobel

#22. Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

Gray Davis