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To do the most that lies in you, you must go with a heart and head full of hope and faith in the world, believing that there is work for you to do, believing that you are the person to accomplish that work, and the one who is going to accomplish it.
— Booker T. Washington
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christlike work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last thirty-five years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
— Booker T. Washington
Yes, I know better; God created man so that he might admire the splendour of the world. Every author, be he never so great, wants his work to be praised.
— Heinrich Heine
MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.
— Reid Hoffman
One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.
— Jason Fried
Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.
— Gloria Steinem
We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor.
— Jerry Bridges
In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.
— John Ortberg
I want to get my MBA. I want to create my own business. When I'm finished with football, I want a seamless transition to life and work and what I've dreamed about doing all my life.
— Josh Rosen
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
— St. Jerome
Thus a true sacrifice is every work which is done that we may be united to God in holy fellowship, and which has a reference to that supreme good and end in which alone we can be truly blessed. And therefore even the mercy we show to men, if it is not shown for God's sake, is not a sacrifice.
— St. Augustine