Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. —Thomas Sowell More about this quote Tags: history progress work functionality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don’t do it. Don’t go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a roller coaster. Swim in the ocean. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you’ve never even heard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose—allow smells to be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don’t go back to that miserable place you go every day. —Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock More about this quote Tags: life power purpose accomplishment vision change work revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of us continue to work for wages in a highly unequal social system that denies us meaningful work and a decent return for our labor. That simple fact defines a set of common interests of immense democratic potential. —Charles Bergquist More about this quote Tags: potential meaning democracy labor work equality job Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give me love and work - these two only. —William Morris More about this quote Tags: love work need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: work earning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: mind money work energy job Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. —Robert Frost More about this quote Tags: work jobs employment boss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. —H.H. Williams More about this quote Tags: understanding doing change work activity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow. —Don Herold More about this quote Tags: work procrastination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greater the effort, the greater the glory. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: work effort glory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. —Ellen Goodman More about this quote Tags: humor ownership money work business job normal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When two people meet and fall in love, there’s a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it’s usually too late, we’ve used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It’s hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: love time change work magic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You’ve heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It’d go like this: You’d get the boss on the line and say, “Listen, I’ve been sick ever since I started working here, but today I’m well and I won’t be in anymore.” Call in well. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: purpose health work mental health illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. —Ogden Nash More about this quote Tags: work class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. —Jerome K. Jerome More about this quote Tags: humor work idleness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email