Work Done Quotes

#1. Be thankful and repay Growth with good work and care. Work done in gratitude Kindly, and well, is prayer.

Wendell Berry

#2. The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. Any work done with love - be it a photo or a meal or a painting - always looks so pretty, because love is a master of creating magical beauties!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

Holly Black

#5. Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done.

Cate Marvin

#6. As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

Steven Rattner

#7. Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

Marilu Henner

#8. Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

Viktor E. Frankl

#9. You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the work done. For I believe that eventually quantity will make for quality.

Ray Bradbury

#10. The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character

Roland Barthes

#11. If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

Robert Pozen

#12. When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.

Marsha Sinetar

#14. I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?

Sydney Schanberg

#15. I'm taking a pretty light load. I'm doing well. Gideon and Jason are both in school too, so we find time between shows to get work done, and during the day. I really like Columbia. Unlike high school, I don't feel any pressure to get straight-As. I just like learning.

Sarah Steele

#16. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked."

Herman Melville

Peter Wortsman

#17. Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said: "Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry." Yes, from dissipation of their energies - and worry because they never seem to get their work done.

Dale Carnegie

#19. The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done.

Dennis Miller

#20. Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

George Peabody

#21. Work wherever and whenever you want, but get your work done.

Timothy Ferriss

#22. I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

Cory Lidle

#23. I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out for a walk, ride a bike, go to a cafe or something. When it's raining, when it's a miserable day, I just sit down at my desk and get some work done.

Adrian McKinty

#24. If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.

Richard Hamming

#25. Work done by non-Christians always contain some degree of God's common grace as well as the distortions of sin. Work done by Christians, even if it overtly names the name of Jesus is also to a significant degree distorted by sin.

Timothy Keller

#26. Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

Henry James

#27. I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand, as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

Ron Howard

#28. Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

Aaron Levie

#29. In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.

Rudolf Clausius

#30. No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

Aurangzeb

#31. Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Thomas Carlyle

#32. Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

#33. I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money.

Robert M. Edsel

#34. I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

Fiona Apple

#35. A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for finely crafted furniture.

Kat Daughtry

#36. The work you love doing overlaps with that of a Hobby (routine work done in leisure time). The essence is in untiring consummation of hard Core Work in the guise of a Hobby

Priyavrat Thareja

#37. I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

Bellamy Young

#38. I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

Dani Shapiro

#39. I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me.

Michael A. Stackpole

#40. Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole ... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.

John Heartfield

#41. The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#42. The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

Anne Lamott

#43. The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

Og Mandino

#44. Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to think about care.

Dave DeBronkart

#45. The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.

John Flavel

#46. Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

Colin Ford

#47. When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

Peter Jacobson

#48. When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, It happened to us naturally.

Laozi

#49. You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

Joseph Campbell

#50. There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

Robin Sloan

#51. The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Thomas Carlyle

#52. I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.

Miley Cyrus

#53. It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them ... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

Seamus Heaney

#54. Luther looks at all the jobs that are out there and he says, These are the masks of God, behind which He wants to remain concealed, and do all things. Christians have to be profoundly appreciative of good work done on absolutely everything.

Timothy Keller

#55. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Arthur Bloch

#56. The work done, she lowered him back into place with what, in his final thought, seemed great gentleness. And then he was done.

Nicholas Nicastro

#57. I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander-in-chief, our president, George Bush.

Wesley Clark

#58. Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

David Allen

#59. he had had some eye work done: a lift to remove the puff and bloat; he would rather look startled and insane than look fifty-six.

Lorrie Moore

#60. One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

John Kinsella

#61. People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.

Ernie J Zelinski

#62. The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Walter Mosley

#63. Shit, if I took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done.

Neal Stephenson

#64. The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.

Simon Sinek

#65. For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.

Bernie Sanders

#66. There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

George Eliot

#67. You just have to be as generous as you can, but selfish enough to get your work done.

Austin Kleon

#68. I'm a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I'm always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips.

Heidi Klum

#69. You do your job, you get your work done at the rink and then you go home. The big thing is figuring out what you're going to do the rest of the day.

Dany Heatley

#70. In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

Noam Chomsky

#71. God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#72. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter Drucker

#73. There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.

Celia Imrie

#74. So go home at five. Turn off the cell phone over the weekend. Watch a movie. Perhaps, most important, have a sandwich. By not working so much, you'll get more and better work done.

Anonymous

#75. That was what collaboration meant for Steve Woz: the ability to share a donut and a brainwave with his laid-back, nonjudgmental, poorly dressed colleagues - who minded not a whit when he disappeared into his cubicle to get the real work done.

Susan Cain

#76. And to get the work done that I must do, one has to work in isolation and not be readily disturbed ... I don't have daily newspapers, and I like to feel when I get up in the morning my attention is fixed on the work I am going to do.

Reg Butler

#77. If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.

John Corey Whaley

#78. It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

Stephen Sondheim

#79. The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.

Ricardo Semler

#80. I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

Morgan Freeman

#81. I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.

Adrian Chiles

#82. Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

B.C. Forbes

#83. I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

Stephen Sondheim

#84. If I get work done early, I can do some interacting with fans online, or see my friends. If I don't get that work done, you may not see much of me!

Cassandra Clare

#85. The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

Ernest Hemingway,

#86. I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way.

George Carlin

#87. I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

Jan Karon

#88. Any work done by a follower of Christ to the glory of God is "gold, silver, precious stones." But if any follower of Christ works with any self-interest or personal ambition involved, it will be "wood, hay, and stubble" and will be burned.

Billy Graham

#89. I make everybody feel that he doesn't really want to do any good work but that he just wants to get work done that will be thought good by everyone he knows ...

J.D. Salinger

#90. If you can get today's work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can't possibly get tomorrow's work done tomorrow, then you lose.

Martin Fowler

#91. Be boring. (It's the only way to get work done.)

Austin Kleon

#92. If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#93. If we were really unattached, we should escape all this pain of vain expectation, and could cheerfully do good work in the world. Never will unhappiness or misery come through work done without attachment. The world will go on with its happiness and misery through eternity.

Swami Vivekananda

#94. I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

John Zorn

#95. Dirtyhands had come to see the rough work done.

Leigh Bardugo

#96. Yes. However, remember - productivity is more than just the quantity of work done. It is also the quality.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#97. Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

Swami Vivekananda

#98. If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

Marc Andreessen

#99. I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

Sylvester Stallone

#100. The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'

Hans Rosling