Acadamia Quote by Johanna Hedman

“This illusion of work is fatal. It wastes your time, makes you think that you’re doing something worthy when you’re not, and doesn’t do…

— Vishal Ostwal

“Hard work and good intentions, without priorities and focus are a quick way to overwhelm.”

— Zara Fagen

“Maybe work is just one long process of hiding one’s deficiencies,”

— Liza Klaussmann

“my great weakness: if a task was even mildly challenging, any sense of injustice drained away and I simply worked quietly until I was…

— Robin Sloan

“I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the…

— J.K. Rowling

“You get distracted and become busy instead of being productive. You dedicate your skills and capabilities to the work that doesn’t count. That’s when…

— Vishal Ostwal

“though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.”

— Various

“Work is fun when you are actually leaning into your strengths and are deeply engaged and energized by what you’re doing.”

— Bill Burnett

“Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God,…

— Philip Larkin

“The task may be simple for me, but if I make it look too easy, you won’t appreciate it as much as if I…

— Jarod Kintz

“The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Grasp the simplicity and power of no excuses and you have guaranteed success.”

— Brace E. Barber