You get down to work when the fear of having done nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing it wrong. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: fear accomplishment error work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Alain de Botton Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It's great when you finally realize that being miserable doesn't protect you from bad stuff happening. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: pessimism sadness miserable Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: love perfection imperfection health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology. —Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists More about this quote Tags: news rapid change politics technology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We all possess wisdom that we lack the strength properly to enact in our lives. —Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists More about this quote Tags: action wisdom strength Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's great when you finally realize that being miserable doesn't protect you from bad stuff happening. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: pessimism sadness miserable Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: love perfection imperfection health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology. —Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists More about this quote Tags: news rapid change politics technology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all possess wisdom that we lack the strength properly to enact in our lives. —Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists More about this quote Tags: action wisdom strength Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “work” Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you're meeting and every experience that you're having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness. —Jennifer Elisabeth More about this quote Tags: purpose discovery experience work darkness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email This work is about transformation — from the person we are to the person we really are. In the end, we can't be anyone else. —Marion Rosen More about this quote Tags: identity work transformation Someone else Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email People have the power to redeem the work of fools. —Patti Smith More about this quote Tags: power people work fools Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Healing is what happens, not what we do. —Dora Kunz More about this quote Tags: action change work healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it . . . a sure sense that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it. —John Ruskin More about this quote Tags: success happiness work need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you're meeting and every experience that you're having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness. —Jennifer Elisabeth More about this quote Tags: purpose discovery experience work darkness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This work is about transformation — from the person we are to the person we really are. In the end, we can't be anyone else. —Marion Rosen More about this quote Tags: identity work transformation Someone else Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People have the power to redeem the work of fools. —Patti Smith More about this quote Tags: power people work fools Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Healing is what happens, not what we do. —Dora Kunz More about this quote Tags: action change work healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it . . . a sure sense that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it. —John Ruskin More about this quote Tags: success happiness work need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email