Work And Life Quotes

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Work and life are an interconnected adventure, guided by the heart, winged with spirit, and nourished by the soul.

There is no one who has ever created music with the combination of intelligence, intuition, depth, creativity, and humor that Jerry Garcia has. His work and life will continue to be a limitless source of inspiration for all of us.

The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.

Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.

When you’re gone would you rather have your gravestone say, ‘He never missed a meeting.’ Or one that said, ‘He was a great father.’

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way… Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work