Reactive Work Quotes

#1. The single most important change you can make in your working habits is to switch to creative work first, reactive work second. This means blocking off a large chunk of time every day for creative work on your own priorities, with the phone and e-mail off.

Jocelyn K. Glei

#2. Dream with all of your mind.
Work with all of your heart.
Persevere with all of your strength.
Succeed with all of your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles De Gaulle

#4. He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked.
"He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Anthony Horowitz

#5. There's a part of me that recognizes him on a cellular level, a part that seeks his comfort and solace, that feels more than comfortable in his arms. And when he stares at me with that deep penetrating gaze of his, my body reacts in all the right, and wrong, ways.

Siobhan Davis

#6. I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection.

Rick Rubin

#7. Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.

Dolly Parton

#8. Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.

William J. Clinton

#9. I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.

Bill Gates

#10. Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Robert Mugabe

#11. After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

Anne Stuart

#12. Make yourself so happy so that when others look at you they become happy too

Yogi Bhajan

#13. My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

Courtney Love

#14. Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

Gordon Livingston

#15. They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection.

Peter Duesberg

#16. our work's reactive: In the

Brad Meltzer

#17. I won contest after contest until finally I realized, "Ok, I am the best in the world, but now what?" So I opened my own company, but there was still that feeling of, "What else do I need to do?"

Christian Hosoi

#18. You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

David Gray