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Work Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder…
- The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work
- What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard…
- Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we…
- It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to…
- A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting…
- An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.
- I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come…
- ...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It…
- Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep…
- Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach