They blame the low-income women for ruining the country because they're staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle-income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children. —Ann Richards More about this quote Tags: children poverty work women blame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sisyphus was a highly productive worker. —Sparrow More about this quote Tags: work productivity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you open yourself to grace working through you, then grace works on you and in you as well. Grace is what has kept me going. —John Records More about this quote Tags: work grace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have twenty-one pages, unusable, unprintable, destructive of the book as my mind still partly sees it, contradictory of character and inconsistent in tone. But I am undoubtedly started. —Janet Burroway More about this quote Tags: writing art work beginning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We see achievement as purposeful and monolithic, like the sculpting of a massive tree trunk that has first to be brought from the forest and then shaped by long labor to assert the artist's vision, rather than something crafted from odds and ends, like a patchwork quilt, and lovingly used to warm different nights and bodies. —Mary Catherine Bateson More about this quote Tags: purpose vision art work achievement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What does a man need — really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in, and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all — in the material sense. And we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, and preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. —Sterling Hayden More about this quote Tags: accomplishment work food payment activity shelter mortgage gadgets 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
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
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
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
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
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
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. —Samuel McChord Crothers More about this quote Tags: perfection imperfection failure labor work effort trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, then you're seeking the wrong kind of people, for it has nothing to do with who you are and everything to do with what you do. Is that the kind of people you want? The ones who are more attracted to your status than you? —Donna Lynn Hope More about this quote Tags: attention work approval want seeking status Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing will work unless you do. —Maya Angelou More about this quote Tags: work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email