Quotes On At Work

#1. It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles ...

Ana Gasteyer

#2. One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Terri Blackstock

#3. I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

John Constable

#4. History is an amazing presence
it is the place where vanished time gathers. While we are in the flow of time, it is difficult to glean its significance, and it is only in looking back that we can recognize the hidden dimensions at work within a particular era or epoch.

John O'Donohue

#5. There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

Norman Foster

#6. The Gospels and the Epistles say next to nothing about emotional stability or midlife crises or a bad day at work. But they are practically overflowing with this one word: hope.

Ted Dekker

#7. There is a wall that's built up that leads us to believe we can't move at work, but that's not the case. We need to find those pockets of time where we can take care of ourselves.

Jessie Pavelka

#8. I arrived at 7.04 p.m. only to find that the bar did not open until 9.00 p.m. Incredible. No wonder people make mistakes at work. Would it be full of surgeons and flight controllers, drinking until after midnight then working the next day?

Graeme Simsion

#9. But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.

Hilaire Belloc

#10. Sleeping here is harder here in space than on a bed because the sleep position here is the same position throughout the day. You don't ever get that sense of gratifying relaxation here that you do on Earth after a long day at work.

Scott Kelly

#11. This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Frederick Law Olmsted

#12. We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

Gale Anne Hurd

#13. The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues that you want honest feedback, and that you promise not to take it too personally.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#14. Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

Moshe Safdie

#15. I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.

Natalie Zea

#16. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

Oswald Chambers

#17. No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

Bruce Springsteen

#18. Work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

#19. I have become my own island state. A ravaged, war-torn land where nothing grows and the horizons are bleak. Yes, that's me. I can interact impersonally at work, but that's it.

E.L. James

#20. Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

Kay Granger

#21. Roy is my favorite security guy. He's a huge African-American gentleman who always has a beautiful smile on his face. He's the King of the Main Desk, and I'm always glad to arrive at work and bask in his magnificent good cheer.

Audrey Niffenegger

#22. God's work in us does not eliminate our work; it enables it. We work because he is the one at work in us. Therefore, the fight for joy is possible because God is fighting for us and through us.

John Piper

#23. It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

Susan Wojcicki

#24. Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.

Seth Godin

#25. Then when I heard the story of Who Moved My Cheese?, I realized my job was to paint a picture of 'New Cheese' that we would all want to pursue, so we could enjoy changing and succeeding, whether it was at work or in life.

Spencer Johnson

#26. Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.

Jim Butcher

#27. There are a lot of perks when you're an actor. Free food at work was my second favorite in the beginning, but my first was the weird stuff. Like seeing celebrities in no makeup and finding out what they ate.

Judy Greer

#28. The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells ... and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

Robert A. Whitney

#29. Never make a decesion until you have to". He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

Randy Pausch

#30. When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

Sharon Salzberg

#31. It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

Fred F. Fielding

#32. Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Teddy Roosevelt

#33. You yourself must endure the painful process of change. There is much more at work here than your instant maturity. God wants to build a relationship with you that is based on faith and trust and not on glamorous miracles.

Gene Edwards

#34. I felt strongly that marketing managers, in order to make better marketing decisions, needed to analyze markets and competition in systems terms, explicating the forces at work and their various interdependencies.

Philip Kotler

#35. I've always hated the big United Way drive at work. Not because of the United Way. Great organization. Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.

Kris Dunn

#36. Often in the case of these sudden transformations one can prove that an archetype has been at work for a long time in the unconscious, skilfully arranging circumstances that will unavoidably lead to a crisis.

C. G. Jung

#37. Over-communication at work can create a new level of tasks and responsibilities.

Jeff Davidson

#38. I'll never fully shake that sense of absolute impotence when destiny is at work. The feeling will cling to my feet forever, trying to pull me down. Even now if I mess up a pass, that malign force could be to blame. For that reason, I steer well clear of the DVD from the Liverpool game.

Andrea Pirlo

#39. There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?

Simon Mainwaring

#40. Your giving and searching for ways to give is Love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work.

Marshall Vian Summers

#41. Joy is family, life, all of it - the big stuff and the small stuff. Just holding the woman you love in your arms can make a hard day at work fade away.

Renee Carlino

#42. Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!

Ole Hallesby

#43. I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

Charles Darwin

#44. Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too late!

Israelmore Ayivor

#45. Every single aspect of what we do at work comes down to people and managing people, selling to people, working with people or making them do what you want them to do.

Abhishek Ratna

#46. There is no safe container to store your values while you're at work; not living your deepest values will leak on you

Stan Slap

#47. Hard at work on a new one, huh? What's this one called?"
"A Feast of Souls."
"A Feast of Souls," Ben said. "Classy." I slowed, unsure whether or not I had detected a hint of sarcasm in my neighbor's tone.

James Newman

#48. It's as if there's a fumble-fingered but powerful universal force at work, always trying to put wrong things right.

Stephen King

#49. Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous ...

Claude Monet

#50. I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

Larry King

#51. Many people who hold giver values in life choose matching as their primary reciprocity style at work, seeking an even balance of give and take.

Adam Grant

#52. The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

#53. ... it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on.

Nick Hornby

#54. Noticing helps you realize that your life is already suffused with the presence of God. Once you begin to look around and allow yourself to take a chance to believe in God, you will easily see God at work in your life.

James Martin

#55. I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Henry James

#56. Be risky at work. Be safe with your investments.

Robert Herjavec

#57. Ignoring is a form of bullying because you're blocking that person out. It doesn't matter if you don't like somebody. That's fine. You don't have to. But you need to be cordial to and communicate with that person at work.

Alexandra Robbins

#58. September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

Nadine Gordimer

#59. The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one.

C.S. Lewis

#60. I never wear makeup when I'm not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I've grown to really love the way I look without it.

Leighton Meester

#61. Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful.

Alexander Kjerulf

#62. Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.

Carlos Roche

#63. God is at work in the world, and He wants you to join Him ... You are the only Christian some people will ever know.

Rick Warren

#64. So maybe it was the gods at work. Maybe it was some force beyond them, beyond mortal comprehension. Or maybe it was just for what and who Celaena would never be. Yrene

Sarah J. Maas

#65. A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK.

Sujit Lalwani

#66. The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don't commit to being happy at work, you won't be. You won't make the choices that make you happy. You won't take the actions needed to get there. You won't change the things that need to change.

Alexander Kjerulf

#67. She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

Nora Roberts

#68. The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.

Brigid Schulte

#69. Begin anywhere. Preferably right now. And if greatness should ever accidentally stumble upon you, let it catch you hard at work. Hard at work, and sane.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#70. The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#71. Even a magnificent city such as Florence becomes more intriguing if there is a demon at work in the alleys.

Chris Bohjalian

#72. You will spend more of your waking hours at work than anything else. If that time doesn't make you happy it's a huge waste of life.

Alexander Kjerulf

#73. The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?

George Berkeley

#74. Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.

Thomas Oden

#75. There are strategic imperatives at work as well. Both leaders need to expand their economies, and both see the other as a crucial partner in offsetting China's increasingly assertive

Anonymous

#76. When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

Zooey Deschanel

#77. Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

Woodrow Wilson

#78. It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there!

Chaske Spencer

#79. Twitter is the perfect complement to television. TV has always been social. You talk to the person you're sitting next to on the couch. You talk to the people you're - you know, at work with the next day around the proverbial water cooler.

Dick Costolo

#80. Looking back, the first symptom was a gradual decrease in his ability to concentrate at work. Naturally curious and active, he noticed an uncharacteristic tendency to procrastinate.

John Grisham

#81. Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue.

Sheryl Sandberg

#82. Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you'll never spend a day at work.

Mario Batali

#83. When I try to use incantations at work i often find they have no effect and my coworkers just laugh at me.

Misha Collins

#84. When he thought about how he wanted to build his career coming out of college, Hahn took inspiration from Theodore Roosevelt's famous dictum, "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."5

Reid Hoffman

#85. Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.

Hoda Kotb

#86. But developing relationships with coworkers - your peers, superiors, and subordinates - is incredibly important, perhaps even the most important thing you'll do at work, and this is completely dependent on your communication skills.

Scribendi

#87. What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

Gilles Deleuze

#88. We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

Christopher Dawson

#89. Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

Bill Gates

#90. Because despair was an excess that did not belong to him, he submitted to what was left of his life, and began again to look after it, with the unyielding tenacity of a gardener at work the morning after the storm.

Alessandro Baricco

#91. It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#92. Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture that in words, but when T.M. Shine manages to do so, it's a sign of a master at work.

Tom Shroder

#93. One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.

Louis Agassiz

#94. They validate perceptions that need validating, especially in adolescence
ie, under the bland, forced optimism of American life terrible forces are at work, things are not what they seem, and if you feel lonely, persecuted, a misfit, and in terror, you aren't crazy. You're right.

Joanna Russ

#95. When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.

Tom Rath

#96. If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

Neal Boortz

#97. A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common direction of thrust, namely the intention to give expression to things of the psyche [Seelisches] through form alone.

Max Ernst

#98. feel that, however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations.

Winston Graham

#99. Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

Carl Honore

#100. So when a colleague stops you in the hallway at work to say hello and ask about your day, the brief interaction actually sparks a continual upward spiral of happiness and its inherent rewards.

Shawn Achor