Quotes about Work
The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
- Seth Godin
One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
- Seth Godin
I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.
- Seth Godin
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.
- Shane Claiborne
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
- Stanley Hauerwas
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.
- Steven Pressfield
The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn't devote his life to it of his own free will.
- Steven Pressfield
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.
- Thomas Merton
The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.
- Timothy Keller