Dan Baker
Balance is not a math problem: It’s not a matter of shifting a few hours each week from one activity to another. If it were that easy, everyone with a PalmPilot would look as serene as the Dalai Lama. Balance is a design problem — a matter of coming to terms with your values and priorities, of reckoning with the trade-offs that they require. Balance … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Time Management, Work
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brandeis
I have found a way to successfully complete 12 months of work in 11. I have never found a way to successfully complete 12 months of work in 12.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Work
Stephen Overell
The consensus among economists is that the truly momentous changes in working life since the second world war have been in four areas: the decline in manufacturing, the feminisation of work, the growth in part-time work and increasing professional-ism in the workforce…all these trends are likely to continue.
Content: Quotation | Source: Financial Times | Subject: Work
W.E.B. Du Bois
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of work. With it, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this – with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need – this life is hell.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Life, Work
Pierre Wack (Royal Dutch/Shell forecaster and fath
The work you do should be a test of your perceptiveness. All great work becomes the art of seeing (paraphrased).
Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Vision, Work
E. F. Schumacher
Some people always tend to clamour for a final solution, as if in life there could ever be a final solution other than death. For constructive work, the principal task is always the restoration of some kind of balance.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Career, Motivation, Work
Leonardo da Vinci
Men of genius sometimes work best when they work least.
Content: Quotation | Source: LiNE Zine | Subjects: Human Resources, Work
Arthur Brisbane, American journalist (1864-1910)
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Success / Failure, Work
Charles Handy
Work is something you do rather than something you go to.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Work
Holt’s Law
All jobs are easy to the person who doesn’t have to do them.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Work