In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged... we want to give them new music.
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can't be safe. Life's not safe. Your work isn't safe. When you leave the house, it isn't safe. The air you breathe isn't going to be safe, not for very long. That's why you have to enjoy the moment.
Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.
Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.
My story is going to be completely different than someone else's story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do.
In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.
Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I'm truly living.
A lot of things are going to happen that you can't necessarily control all the time, but you can control what you do after it happens. So that's what I try to do, keep my head up, keep moving forward, stay positive and just work hard.
I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Stress is part of life. It is something we all experience from time to time. Sometimes it reflects our own busy lifestyles or key moments such as exams, moving house, organising an event, or coping with a bereavement. Often it is associated with work: meeting a deadline, dealing with difficult people, or meeting stretching targets.
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.
If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.