“Some days I run aground because the work is difficult. Other days I run aground because working is difficult. These are two different things, and knowing the difference between them is how I eke productivity out of some of the worst times.”— Howard Tayler, twitter.com
“Am I the only one who can work and drink at the same time?”— Erin Levy, Peggy Olson, Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
“You learn nothing more gangster, nothing smarter, nothing more powerful than a housewife. Housewives are the smartest motherfuckers on Earth. People think it’s the working woman. No. Suckers work. That’s right. Smart people find other people to work for them.”— Chris Rock, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“You have value as precisely as who you are right now. Figure out what that value is rather than faking another value.”— Jenn Romolini, girlsnightinclub.com
“I think we romanticize our careers and origin stories in the same way we romanticize love, and I think we have to stop having that kind of language around our lives and professional lives. It makes you think that if you don’t know it, you can’t do it. It’s important to actually stumble around a lot.”— Jenn Romolini, girlsnightinclub.com
“I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.”— Adam Savage, businessinsider.com
“I imagine that in the end art for art’s sake—working for the sake of working—energy for energy’s sake—really becomes very important to all the good fellows.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“Deep work, flow state, hacker focus, etc. all refer to a state where one becomes completely absorbed in an activity; fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, involvement, and enjoyment.”— David El Achkar, david.achkar.com
“There was no need to rush his vacation thinking about such foul things as coming back home or going back to work. The vacation had only just begun and it was going to be a good one”— Jason Medina, amazon.com
“The best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”— Kenneth Grahame, amazon.com
“Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning and joy into your life.”— Richie Norton, amazon.com
“If you could design your own schedule, would you work more during the morning or at night?”— Mélanie Berliet, thoughtcatalog.com
“He's working longer hours. An ambitious man might work long hours, but he'll make time for the woman who holds his heart. As his emotions and interests move on, so will his time.”— Charly Joy, ezinearticles.com
“Everyday on my way to work I contemplate driving past it And never coming back.”— Frank Warren, amazon.com
“I am rolled up sleeves and dirty hands from a day spent working, I am gentle fingers, tender across your cheek. I am annoying optimism, the belief that things can, and will, always get better; I am dark days where my sun cannot seem to rise. I am worn shoes from wandering and the hibernation in my o…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Writing is hard....Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com